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ABA Annual Meeting, Toronto, August 4-9
The American [sic] Bar Association’s Annual Meeting will be held this coming week in Toronto [sic] and promises the usual array of gifted and unique presenters, as well as mucho networking and...
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International Bar Association Meets Next Week
The International Bar Association opens its Annual Meeting on Sunday October 30, 2011, in Dubai with an eagerly anticipated address by Nobel laureate Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei. During the week, the IBA...
View ArticleInternational Panel on ADR as Cost-Cutting Device
As a final report on the proceedings of the recent IBA Annual Conference, on Thursday November 3 Jane Player and I co-chaired a Panel on “The Use of ADR in the Management and Control of Dispute-Related...
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New Survey Measures Corporate Use of ADR
At the recent Annual Meeting of the CPR Institute in New York, Cornell Professor David B. Lipsky presented some of the results from a recent survey of the Fortune 1000, comparing the current use of ADR...
View ArticleHybrid ADR Processes
Med-Arb and other hybrid processes have been received with reluctance in the United States and UK, mainly because of ethical concerns of the arbitrator. Outside of common law countries, however, the...
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ABA Dispute Resolution Meeting April 18-21
I remember attending the first meeting of the Dispute Resolution Section of the American Bar Association, in Boston, in 1999. I was on a panel discussing Y2K, and absolutely everybody I had ever met in...
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National Roundtable on Consumer/Employment Dispute Resolution
One of the most interesting sessions at the ABA Dispute Resolution meeting in Washington was a report on an initiative of the Straus Institute at Pepperdine and the Dickerson School of Law at Penn...
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ADR in Africa
The final paper from a student in the International Commercial Dispute Resolution course at New York Law School discusses the present state of commercial mediation, conciliation and arbitration in...
View ArticleMediation Films Win CEDR Award
The four films produced by Harvard’s Kennedy School on mediating corporate-community disputes have been recognized with the Award for Best Publication or Communication by the prestigious Centre for...
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Year-End Wrap Up: Are We There Yet?
Some of us have been at the task of providing alternatives to business litigation for fifteen years. Some have been at it much, much longer. Stepping back from the fray for a moment, one might well...
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How Fortune 1000 Companies Use ADR
Last year, a survey was conducted among senior in-house counsel of the Fortune 1000, to follow-up on the findings of the influential 1997 Cornell survey. Thomas J. Stipanowich of Pepperdine and J....
View ArticleABA Business Law Meeting Features Conflict Management Topics
Two panels at the upcoming meeting of the ABA Business Law Section in Washington, DC, will be of interest to business lawyers concerned with conflict management. The first, on Friday April 5 at 8:00...
View ArticleEarly Case Analysis and Planned Negotiation
Perhaps the single least recognized, most effective strategy for managing streams of commercial disputes is early intervention. The bundle of skills implicated by this strategy include Planned Early...
View ArticleNew Article: “Managing Disputes in a Flat World”
Royal Dutch Shell Legal Director Peter Rees and CPR Institute President Kathy Bryan have co-authored a very good article called “How to Manage Disputes in a Flat World.” Much of its appeal lies in its...
View ArticleABA Teleconference on “Beyond Interest-Based Negotiation”
The ADR Committee of the ABA Trial, Tort and Insurance Practice Section (TIPS) sponsors a periodic series of telephonic programs on the Psychology of Conflict Resolution. The programs are organized...
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Regulating, Certifying, Creating Barriers to Entry….
There seems to be a presumption that being a mediator implicates public policy, and that the practice of mediation needs to be somehow regulated for the public good. In my region, for example, one must...
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Project Management and Dispute Avoidance
An interesting presentation on dispute prevention was featured at the recent UIA World Mediation Forum in Prague. The presenters demonstrated that project managers, not lawyers, may be the best...
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Floating Questions for the Beach
Hanging around my notebook are musings and questions waiting for an iron to get hot enough to strike. Well, the iron hasn’t and it being August we might as well just lay them down there, unconnected...
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Planned Early Dispute Resolution Resources
Readers might be interested in taking a look at the User Guide and other resources developed by the Planned Early Dispute Resolution Task Force of the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution, which was...
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New York Law School Announces New ADR Skills Program
New York Law School has announced the creation of a new Program on Alternative Dispute Resolution, leading to a Certificate in the field. The Program emphasizes skills, in addition to doctrinal...
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