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Rhodes, Rosen to Start Local Mediation Service

Submitted by jhartgen@abi.org on Fri, 2016-10-28 00:00

Two federal judges who will forever be associated with Detroit’s chapter 9 municipal bankruptcy case and its Grand Bargain are starting a downtown Detroit office of Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Services (JAMS) in the spring, the Detroit News reported today. Judge Steven Rhodes (ret.), who presided over the landmark bankruptcy case, will start a local JAMS office with his former colleague, Gerald Rosen, a district court judge for the Eastern District of Michigan and a former mediator in the bankruptcy case, with Miller Canfield Paddock & Stone attorney Clarence “Rocky” Pozza. JAMS is an organization that provides arbitration, mediation and other services for lawyers and parties involved in lawsuits or who are contemplating legal action. Rhodes left the federal bench in 2015 and serves as transition manager for the Detroit Public Schools through Dec. 31.

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