(Jana Ašenbrennerová / Special to the Daily Journal)
The mediations and arbitrations Robert L. Dondero hears these days are much like the settlement conferences and bench trials he supervised during his 17 years as a San Francisco County judge.
Recently, however, he has begun to hear a different type of proceeding. Those are like the oral arguments he heard during his 10 years as 1st District Court of Appeal justice. They are called "neutral evaluations" and are somewhat similar t... (continued)