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SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT APPOINTS NEW SJC/TRIAL COURT
STANDING COMMITTEE ON DISPUTE RESOLUTION
Boston—The
Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court today announced the
members of a newly constituted Supreme Judicial Court/Trial
Court Standing Committee on Dispute Resolution. Chairing the
thirteen-member Standing Committee is Superior Court Judge
John C. Cratsley, who also served as chair of the former ADR
Committee. The other members are judges and court employees
from throughout the Trial Court and four non-court representatives.
The
initial primary task of the new Standing Committee, which
is meeting for the first time today, will be to review proposed
qualification standards for neutrals in court-connected ADR
work and to complete a draft Rule 8 of the Uniform Rules on
Dispute Resolution for review by the Supreme Judicial Court.
The Standing Committee also will evaluate whether any other
changes should be made in the existing ADR Rules, which have
been in effect since 1999.
Judge
Cratsley said, "The original goals of the Uniform Rules on
Dispute Resolution-to improve access, to insure standards
of quality and procedural fairness, and to foster innovation-are
as relevant today as they were when the SJC adopted the Uniform
Rules three years ago. I look forward to working with the
committee members in an effort to further the work that has
been started."
The
committee members are Cynthia Brophy, Administrator of Mediation
Services, Boston Municipal Court; Charles K. Brownlee, Regional
Coordinator, Administrative Office of the District Court;
Donna M. Ciampoli, Acting Clerk-Magistrate, Suffolk County
Juvenile Court; Susan Jeghelian, Executive Director of the
Massachusetts Office of Dispute Resolution; Robert
L. Lewis, Clerk-Magistrate, Boston Housing Court; Timothy
Linnehan, Coordinator of Alternative Dispute Resolution Services,
Administrative Office of the Trial Court; Scott P. Moriearty,
of counsel at Bingham McCutchen, LLP; Superior Court Judge
Stephen E. Neel; Deborah Patterson, Assistant Clerk, Land
Court; First Justice Gail L. Perlman, Hampshire Probate and
Family Court; Harvard Law School Professor Frank E. A. Sander;
and attorney Beth Anne Wolfson. LaDonna J. Hatton, Coordinator
of Program and Policy Development at the Supreme Judicial
Court, will serve as committee coordinator.
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