In July 2010, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida accepted the Report and Recommendation of Magistrate Judge John J. O'Sullivan that a mediation settlement agreement be enforced over the objections of the defendant. In so doing, the court engaged in an analysis that would be...
On Saturday of the ABA Annual Meeting a group of judges presented a panel on "ADR in the Business Courts: How Commercial Judges Encourage Settlement." Joining Vice Chancellor Don Parsons (Delaware), Judge Steven Platt (Maryland), Judge Ira Warshawsky (New York) and Judge Ben Tennille (North Carolina) were Bankruptcy Judge Elizabeth...
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...
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...