In preparation for next week's Annual Meeting of the American Bar Association, I have been delighted to get to know a group of judges who will be offering a program on Saturday afternoon, August 7, on the use of ADR in Business Courts. One of them, Judge Steven I Platt...
Many parties in mediation -- and many of their counsel -- consider that a "win" is a deal that gets them the number they asked for, or close to it. In fact that's not so, and a mediator provides important value to disputants by assisting them to determine, in a...
I am spending this week in beautiful Silver Bay, New York, on the western side of Lake George. There, at a grand old historic YMCA summer camp, the New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) holds its annual summer conference. Quakers are a "peculiar people"...
Monday, July 12, is the cut-off date for Early Bird Registration for the ABA Annual Meeting in San Francisco. I will be speaking on a panel on arbitration, with such luminaries as Mark Trachtenberg, Deborah Rothman and Rob Friedman, who argued Jackson v. Rent-a-Center before the Supreme Court. (Honestly, sometimes...
Prof. Joseph Allegretti wrote an interesting article ten years ago titled A Christian Perspective on Alternative Dispute Resolution, 28 Fordham Urb. L.J. 997 (2001). In it he tells the tale of St. Francis of Assisi's mediating a conflict between the residents of a town and a ravenous wolf that was...