Sam Kagel (1909-May 21, 1997) created the modern day practice of Mediation-Arbitration.

Sam Kagel first began working in the arbitration field in 1932 at the Pacific Coast Labor Bureau (PCLB)^[1]. He stop taking new cases in 2005, after a career that spanned 73 years. During that time he was involved in over ten thousand cases, many of which have been archived in the Sam Kagel Collection at the Online Archive of California.

Early Life

"Mr. Kagel was born in San Francisco in 1909, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants. His father, Hyman Kagel, worked on a hog farm in the Sacramento Valley, and later owned part of a small grocery in Oakland, and sold watermelons from a horse-drawn wagon."^[2]

References

^ Scwartz, Harvey (July–August 2007), "LONGSHORE INDUSTRY COAST ARBITRATOR SAM KAGEL, 1909-2007", The Dispatcher, San Francisco, CA{{citation}}: CS1 maint: date format (link)
^ Nolte, Carl (May 27, 2007), "Sam Kagel -- arbitrator in major labor disputes", San Francisco Chronicle

[scwartz-1] Scwartz, Harvey (July–August 2007), "LONGSHORE INDUSTRY COAST ARBITRATOR SAM KAGEL, 1909-2007", The Dispatcher, San Francisco, CA{{citation}}: CS1 maint: date format (link)

[nolte-2] Nolte, Carl (May 27, 2007), "Sam Kagel -- arbitrator in major labor disputes", San Francisco Chronicle

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