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Very excited that we may be hosting our dear friend and spiritual mentor, J. Kim Wright, back in Memphis. Many of the legal practitioners in Memphis are interested in developing a more collaborative practice but feel the need for a more nuts and bolts approach to this development. Pragmatists that they are!

We continue to consider the best ways to bring this practice to the public and to continue to promote and enhance mediation practice along the way.

The ADR section of the Memphis Bar has been actively pushing the local General Sessions Court to adopt a "Mediator of the Day" style project that is voluntary. One of the Judges created a special 9 am docket for pro se litigants every Wednesday. On that day one of the volunteer mediators offers pro bono mediation services to the litigants. First we explain why and what we are doing, then for those who are willing, we go to a conference room around the corner.