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SAN FRANCISCO — Maria-Elena James spent three decades on the bench, mostly as a federal magistrate judge. That experience in thousands of settlement conferences over the years is different in one key respect from her job as a mediator.
“In federal court, I was often the cleaner,” James said in a reference to a “Pulp Fiction” film character, who fixed messy problems. “If it hadn’t settled, they sent it to me. Now I get cas... (continued)