In her excellent blog (linked on the home page of this blog), Diane Levin does us a great service by cutting to the quick of the debate on certification. Her post is an essential read....
News has spread fast about the complaint filed on Monday July 14 by the Attorney General of Minnesota against National Arbitration Forum. But as usual no one has a more complete first cut than Russ Bleemer of CPR -- read his coverage here. Bleemer links these troublesome allegations of deceptive practices to the...
Over the past 18 months I have been getting more and more involved with the "Conflict Transformation Committee" of the New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. That's like Quakers. Like the oatmeal. And it's going to get worse before it gets better....
The ABA Annual Meeting will be held at the end of this month in Chicago and I note that the ADR Committee of the Business Law Section has arranged a top-notch, highly timely presentation. ...
Readers of this blog will remember my interest in the work of Prof. John Ruggie, the Special Representative of the U.N. Secretary General on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations. His work continues, richer and even more provocative....
Victoria Pynchon's "Settle It Now Negotiation Blog" is always worth reading, and a recent post struck paydirt: A link to an article by Donald R. Philbin, Jr., on the use of decision tree analysis -- and other tools -- in assisting parties to intelligently negotiate claims and defenses. It is...
Ethan Katz, the guru of online dispute resolution (ODR) and all-around great guy, has advised us of the following interesting development in public policy and ADR:...