Two panels at the upcoming meeting of the ABA Business Law Section in Washington, DC, will be of interest to business lawyers concerned with conflict management. The first, on Friday April 5 at 8:00 a.m., addresses Early Negotiation and Dispute Management and features David Burt of DuPont, Kathy Bryan of CPR, Ben Picker...
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Last year, a survey was conducted among senior in-house counsel of the Fortune 1000, to follow-up on the findings of the influential 1997 Cornell survey. Thomas J. Stipanowich of Pepperdine and J. Ryan Lamare of Penn State have now prepared an analysis of that new survey, and in an important...
It has long been broadly agreed that the most effective target for education and training in ADR is the lawyers who draft the deals. Drafting a dispute resolution clause as an elegant risk allocation is surely the Holy Grail of commercial deals. Model clauses are promulgated by many ADR organizations,...
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...
On January 22, 2013, CPR Institute issued a press release announcing the promulgation of the "21st Century Corporate ADR Pledge." The Pledge provides for signitories "to commit its resources to manage and resolve disputes through negotiation, mediation and other ADR processes when appropriate, with a view to establishing and practicing...
The interest in Abraham Lincoln sparked by the recent release of Spielberg's film prompts a reminder of Tom Stipanowich's recent article, in the ABA's Dispute Resolution magazine, on Lincoln as a counsellor and negotiator. Lincoln's oft-quoted advice, "discourage litigation," becomes far more than an adage when one considers real-life instances of his actually...