AUGUSTA – The Attorney General’s Consumer Protection Division is recruiting volunteer consumer complaint mediators for its spring class, which will begin April 23. Volunteers will mediate consumer complaints over the phone or by mail in the attorney general’s Augusta office.

Mediators will be trained in consumer law and mediation techniques. They will be asked to volunteer about six hours a week on a schedule convenient to them.

During the past year the Consumer Mediation Service recovered more than $690,000 for Maine consumers. For more information visit www.maine.gov/ag/ or contact Assistant Attorney General James McKenna at 626-8842 or jim.mckenna@maine.gov.