At its recent meeting in Toronto, the ABA House of Delegates approved the Resolution on Public Civility, first proposed by the Section on Dispute Resolution, calling for civility in public discourse and urging state bar groups to take the lead in advocating respectful and attentive civil dialogue. Comes now Sara...
Retired Magistrate Judge Wayne Brazil was an innovative, dedicated and creative contributor to the growth of court-connected ADR in the 1990s up until his recent retirement. On June 3, he honored the New Jersey State Bar with a keynote speech at the annual New Jersey "ADR Day," and his remarks...
It is curious that, as formal training in private negotiation increases, the quality of public negotiation has fallen into such disrepair. Business people negotiating a private deal are trained to listen attentively, in order to discover their counterparty's interests, and to devise beneficial options that accomodate them. Yet listening is something one seldom...
One of the most in-demand items at the ABA Annual Meeting was a seat at the Moscone Center for the panel titled "Shaping the Law: A Solicitor's General Roundtable." The misplaced apostrophe notwithstanding, it was enlightening and a lot of fun. ...
In his keynote address to the Section of Dispute Resolution of the American Bar Association, MIT Professor Lawrence Susskind urged that it was time for ADR professionals to get involved in the failure of meaningful discourse in American public life, and to assist people to talk to each other about deeply...
A panel of eight speakers at the Madrid IBA Conference spoke on "Projects, Practices and Policies: Developments from the World of Mediation." This is the first of a two-part report on the presentations offered....
Six former Attorneys General formed a panel at the ABA Annual Meeting in Chicago to share perspectives on what must be one of the most remarkable legal jobs in the world....