From the CPR Institute: CPR’s Patent Mediation Task Force released its Effective Practices Protocol today endorsing the use of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) in patent disputes, an area in which the cost of litigation expenses have become astronomical....
Michael Leathes gave a characteristically provocative and inspirational address at the 4th ICC International Mediation Conference in Paris on February 7, 2013. Former in-house counsel and a founder and director of the International Mediation Institute, Leathes has posted his speech and the amusing slides that accompany it on the IMI...
Our faithful correspondent Alessandro Bruni, of Concilia, writes that he and Michela Sitzia have authored an about the mediation in Italy (updated to the recent court action finding the mediation statute unconstitutional). Alessandro writes: This article is a part of a book titled “Mediation 2013 in 16 jurisdictions worldwide”, edited by...
The four films produced by Harvard's Kennedy School on mediating corporate-community disputes have been recognized with the Award for Best Publication or Communication by the prestigious Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR), in London. I am honored to have written and co-directed these films, and also served as interviewer on two....
In 1984, the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends published a volume called The Mediator's Handbook. The fourth edition of this wonderful book has recently been released through the Canadian publisher New Society Publishers. By now entirely independent of its initial Quaker roots, The Mediator's Handbook has...
We have noted in various prior posts the confusion that has marked the introduction of commercial mediation in Italy. Not long ago all Italian lawyers went on strike to protest the provision that parties could settle claims without the participation of counsel. Recently we have heard about the ramifications of...
Efforts to challenge the enforceability of settlements that are obtained through mediation almost always yield uncomfortable outcomes. A recent New Jersey Appellate Division decision is no exception....