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Federal judge Dean Pregerson joins JAMS, hopes writing will help others

Central District judge joins JAMS and plans to write about grief, hoping to help others.

Senior U.S. District Judge Dean D. Pregerson, who retired June 1, has joined JAMS in Los Angeles as a mediator and said Friday he would like to write, particularly about dealing with grief, after a 29-year federal tenure handling thousands of cases while enduring several personal losses.

“After 1000s of cases and well over 1,000 felony criminal sentencings, 80 jury trials, all my work on the 9th Circuit, I felt like it was just time to pursue some of the other things I wanted to do,” Pregerson said in a phone interview. “At the same time, I didn’t want to put aside all that experience and do nothing with it.”


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