1999-2000

1999

• Judge Harris H. Agnew (ret.) becomes Chair of RSI Executive Committee.
• Study of court rules in Illinois for mediation of contested custody and visitation completed.
• RSI Service to the Community Award presented to Judge Carl F. J. Henninger posthumously.
• Resource center database for court-related ADR in Illinois created.
• Database of successful settlement conference statistics created for use by magistrate judges in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
• Advanced training conducted for mediators in all major civil litigation mediation programs.

2000

• Database installed for mediation and evaluation program for contested custody and visitation cases in 18th Judicial Circuit.
• Major Civil Litigation Mediation Program created in Champaign County (6th Judicial Circuit). RSI provides training and evaluation software.
• Study of Lanham Act (trademark) mediation in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois completed.