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Defense bar needs to know ins and outs of mediation (access required)

By Alan Cooper
Published: November 9, 2009

CHANTILLY — Roanoke lawyer Phillip V. Anderson had some advice about mediation for fellow attorneys who routinely represent defendants in civil cases. “You need to learn how to do it and you need to learn how to do it well because your clients are going to expect it,” he said at the annual meeting of the ...
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