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Jul. 6, 2018

Reading the Room

Mediator Michael Virga said he has learned when to push for settlements and when to give the parties time.

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Personal injury, construction defect, real estate, product liability, employment

Judicate West neutral Michael Virga has worked over 600 mediations and settlement conferences.

Virga said he had seen it all during 10 years as Sacramento County Superior Court’s supervising settlement judge. From product liability to partnership dissolutions to employment matters, the longtime mediator enjoys handling a diversity of cases.

The former judge does not like to be pigeonho... (continued)

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