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A Connecticut Mediator in a Kangaroo Court?: Successfully Communicating the “Authorized Practice of Mediation” Paradigm to “Unauthorized Practice of Law” Disciplinary Bodies

Young, Paula M.
June 4, 2015

Source: (2008) South Texas Law Review, vol. 49:1047-1228

This article uses the story of a family mediator who was taken to court over the charge of ‘unauthorized practice of law’ in Connecticut to illustrate the legal challenges of mediation in what the author describes as a limited infrastructure favoring lawyers over mediators.

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