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Oct. 8, 2021

‘It’s Their Process’

Mediator Robert Blum lets disputants choose settlement approach.

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Bob Blum Mediation

Neutral Robert A. Blum had to suspend a Zoom mediation he was conducting from his home office in August because an uncontained wildfire was blazing dangerously close to his Grass Valley neighborhood.

"My wife opened the doors of my study, and she looks a little bit harassed," Blum recalled. "So I asked the folks on Zoom to hold on for a minute, and then she said, 'We've got to run.' I said, 'Why?' She says, 'It's a big fire. ..... (continued)

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