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For many years, I would have answered this question “no.” Now I’m a fence sitter. In the course of many years of practice as a full-time neutral, I have run across conflicts in which the parties want a solution using a single neutral who agrees both to mediate and to arbitrate. Accordingly, I have developed the ground rules for using it that I discuss here.

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