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...
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...
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...
Lincoln famously wrote: “As a peacemaker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man.” Without challenging this proposition, I have often wondered to what extent lawyers are uniquely positioned to achieve “goodness,” or to do “good” for others. Don’t teachers also have a “superior opportunity” to do...
There is so much to do, see, hear and learn at the ABA Dispute Resolution Spring Meeting that I frequently find myself at a loss how best to spend my time. If you find yourself in such a quandary, I urge you to consider, at 1:45 p.m. Friday, in Room...