The ADR event of every year is the Spring Meeting of the ABA Dispute Resolution Section Spring Meeting. The Section has announced that proposals for programming for the April 4-7, 2018 Meeting are now being solicited. More surprisingly, the deadline for proposals is only a few weeks away -- Friday,...
A collection of Blaise Pascal’s letters, published in 1657, included a letter that contained the apology, ”Je n’ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n’ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte." That is to say, “I wrote a longer letter than usual because I did...
Prof. Marjorie Silver of Touro Law Center writes to say: We are pleased to announce the publication of Professor Marjorie Silver’s new book: Transforming Justice, Lawyers, and the Practice of Law (Marjorie A. Silver, ed., Carolina Academic Press). Transforming Justice, Lawyers and the Practice of Law is a collection of writings by participants in...
Michael Leathes has written a book on negotiation that is aimed at corporate counsel. In so doing he has given us a clear insight into the challenges of decision making within corporations, and the skills needed for those of us who counsel them. By virtue of his experience and his...
A few months ago we posted disconcerting news of a dissatisfied party to a California arbitration who, rather than seeking to vacate the award pursuant to state or federal arbitration statutes, sued the arbitrator and the service provider, alleging that the arbitrator's qualifications had been misrepresented on the provider's website. The...
For many years, a tempest has surrounded public policy approaches to consumer protection, largely implicating three utterly inapt legal constructs: FRCP 23, the Federal Arbitration Act, and traditional principles of contract formation. Accustomed to managing customer complaints but unwilling to expose themselves to the coercion of class actions, companies have...
Many of the presentations at the ABA Dispute Resolution Section Meeting introduced new books in the field. A notable example was Prof. Lela Love and her co-editor Glen Parker explaining the ongoing effort to open up mediation to people around the world who have may not have experienced it by...