This post is prompted by mixed motives of alerting practitioners to a great CLE opportunity, and what NPR's Car Talk used to call its "Shameless Commerce Dept." A few slots remain in a two-day International ADR "Boot Camp" being offered by the AAA's International Centre for Dispute Resolution and New York Law...
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...
Many are the contracts contemplating cross-border purchases, but still sporting conventional forum selection clauses. Many clients' businesses are running ahead of their attorneys' experience, resulting in contracts like a Florida company shipping to Bolivia, but calling for litigation in Tampa. Ever try to translate a judgment issued a Florida state court...
Those who know me, know that I am an avid enthusiast of Richard Wagner's theatre works. This year alone I have attended a Ring Cycle in Washington, a performance of Das Rheingold in Chicago, a new productions of Tristan und Isolde at the Metropolitan Opera, another Tristan at the English...
Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers, reserved a spot in their NPR show "Car Talk" for what they called the Shameless Commerce Division. I'm taking a page from their book by bringing your attention to a CLE event that is quite special -- five mornings in London during the week...
The publication by the New York Times of a series of highly-critical front-page articles on arbitration of consumer and employment disputes has stirred the pot among practitioners, academics, and others with a stake in Alternative Dispute Resolution. The reportage was flawed, as some in our community were quick to point...
A recent trip to Turkey included a delightful visit at the offices of leading Turkish law firm Hergüner Bilgen Özeke and several of its members, including H. Tolga Danisman. Tolga and I met in the most recent convening of the UIA World Mediation Forum, in Amsterdam, and it was a...