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May 20, 2022

Disarming Approach

Neutral Barbara Johnson puts disputants at ease in mediations, attorneys say.

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Barbara R. Johnson spent 27 years on the bench and doesn’t have any problem admitting that’s work she doesn’t miss much today.

“It’s not that I didn’t like it. I loved it while I was there, but I retired,” Johnson said. “I don’t miss it, because it was every day. That’s the job. It’s five days a week.”

In September 2020, Johnson left the Los Angeles County Superior Court, where she’d been handling a p... (continued)

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