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Nov. 10, 2023

Contrapuntal Harmony

Mediator Tagore Subramaniam brings balance to employment, mass tort, sex abuse cases

Read more about Tagore O. Subramaniam...
Contrapuntal Harmony
Matern Law Group PC
Employment, sexual assault, mass torts
Justin L. Stewart / Special to the Daily Journal

Conducting mediation sessions is rather like playing jazz guitar, according to Tagore Subramaniam, who does both.

Mediation and music are "equal parts right brain and left brain," he said. A musician must know scales and chords. But to play well, "you have to be able to feel emotion. And to play jazz in particular, you have to adapt, based on what the music is giving you."

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