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According to attorney Blane McCarthy — commenting on a Florida mediation certification program — "Judges are seeing [mediation] as an effective way to manage their dockets, their schedules are just so huge, it just makes sense."

Mediation keeps cases out of court and prevents people from having to spend a lot of money preparing for trials, said Mattox Hair, former Circuit Court judge and State Legislator.

Program Stats

• 7,910 mediators in Florida certified by Florida Supreme Court
• 504 mediators certified for Fourth Judicial Circuit (Clay, Duval and Nassau counties)
• 205 mediators in the Fourth Judicial Circuit are attorneys

All information, including the picture of a Jacksonville mediation center, can also be found in Mediation offers business opportunity for attorneys (Jacksonville Daily Record, 6/15/2009).