At the Miami ABA Dispute Resolution Conference, James Coban, Janice Fletcher, Art Hinshaw and Susan Yates addressed the provocative topic, “Cosmetologists Are Licensed, Why Aren’t Mediators?” Ms. Yates, of Resolution Systems Institute, clarified some terms of art for the sake of the discussion. “Credentialing” is the big umbrella, the widest term. ...
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THE EXERCISE: Imagine a market with fully successful commercial mediation. (Its success is measured by the breadth of take-up by commercial disputants and the infrequency of litigated cases involving business disputes.) What are its attributes? What conditions gave rise to this broadly-accepted use of mediation as a day-to-day method of...
The UIA World Mediation Forum in Houston has generated the usual mixture of stimulation and camaraderie. The first panel concerned "Mediation: The Judicial Perspective Here and Abroad." Aleš Zalar, former Minister of Justice of Slovenia and currently President of the European Centre for Dispute Resolution of Ljubljana, moderated the panel, and...
A young, vibrant and alive mentor once taught me that it costs no more to dream big than to dream little. And Michael Leathes is dreaming big. With IMI Chair Deborah Masucci, Michael has recently proposed a "Global Pound Conference." Referring to the 1976 conference at which Prof. Frank Sander shared...
Michael Leathes, a founder of the International Mediation Institute and former in-house counsel of high accomplishment, has written to correct our immediately prior post: Regarding the penultimate para, actually there are examples of deal mediations out there. In fact, we have a little section on the IMI portal devoted to this...
It sometime sometimes seems that the community of business lawyers is divided into two broad tribes: The lawyers who handle the deals, and the lawyers who handle what happens when the deals fall apart. Unfortunately, these two tribes too seldom mix. They don’t go to the same ABA meetings, their...
Notice has recently gone out of a report and recommendations of a Working Group appointed to review the practicality of an International Mediation Center in Singapore. The news release, available here, explains that the recommendations include the establishment of a new service provider limited to mediation of cross-border disputes; the...