State opioid nuisance trial: Retired chief justice named mediator in dispute over settlement

Mediation as a process allows the disputants to make their best efforts in seeking an agreement.  Its purpose is to provide a way for them to work together toward agreement. ...

Randy Lowry talks about why he got into and stayed in mediation: enjoys teaching, relates to a sense of faith, enjoys being a "minister of reconciliation."

"This article originally appeared in the April 1998 issue of Consensus, a newspaper published jointly by the Consensus Building Institute and the MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program."When a colleague suggested hiring...