The second film on the use of facilitated dialogue to ease corporate/community tensions has been posted online. It may be viewed by clicking here....
Juris Publishing has issued a wonderful, concise and revelatory volume edited by arbitration gurus Larry Newman and Ben Shepard. Take the Witness is a collection of do's, don'ts, and real-life examples that thread the fine needle of cross-examination before a panel of international arbitrators -- many of whom are unfamiliar with,...
A recent U.S. District Court opinion has tested the ethical rules barring mediators from representing a party in a subsequent matter that is "identical" or "substantially related" to the mediated matter. It found that, at least in the case before the court, that test had not been satisfied and the...
Two recent court decisions have bubbled through the cyber-community of ListServes and blogs. Both address attorney disqualification -- one in the context of a mediation and the other in the context of an arbitration. The latter is featured here and the former will be described in a subsequent posting. In Northwestern...