CADRe is the brainchild of the Courts Appropriate Dispute Resolution
Committee, a bench-bar committee chaired by Presiding Judge Frank J. Ochoa, and consultant Robert E. Oakes,
a law professor and mediator from San Francisco. Local Court Rule 1102 allows judges to send cases for
a CADRe conference to investigate whether an Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) process might assist in
settling a case early.