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Aug. 10, 2015

Longtime mediator Cecily Bond is unafraid to try unusual methods to resolve disputes

Veteran mediator and arbitrator Cecily Bond sometimes resorts to the unorthodox to settle cases.

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By John Roemer

  Daily Journal Staff Writer 

  SACRAMENTO - Veteran mediator and arbitrator Cecily Bond sometimes resorts to the
  unorthodox to settle cases. 

  There was the time family members were squabbling endlessly over pieces of jewelry
  in a deceased woman's estate. 

  "It got to be 10 p.m., and we finally resolved matters by drawing straws," Bond said
  in an interview at JAMS headquarters in Sacramento. 

  In a wrongful termination... (continued)

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