Mediator Jim Smith, working through the Piedmont Dispute Resolution Center, won the  2014 Governor’s Volunteerism and Community Service Award in the category of Outstanding Senior Volunteer. Mr. Smith, a retired attorney, believes that families in crisis deserve a chance to come together to fashion their own resolution without costly and painful litigation.  He has dedicated his …

Not get a chance to order a shirt?  We’ll re-open the campaign! The cost of the shirts start at $15. There are tee shirts, long-sleeved tee shirts and hoodies.  Five of those dollars will go toward the public education efforts of our consortium. But more importantly, the shirts will help to educate people directly about …

  It appears that the request of $750,000 that was made to the General Assembly to fund community dispute resolution was not included in the budget on either the House or Senate side.  We knew it would be difficult this year to get ANY budget amendments included in the budget, so the news is disappointing, …

View the full post and click this link http://www.americanbar.org/publications/dispute_resolution_magazine/2013/winter.html to read about community dispute resolution in the American Bar Association’s Dispute Resolution Magazine.