At the recent ABA Business Law Section Meeting in Washington, the Dispute Resolution Committee offered an interesting program titled "Who Gets What?" The panel discussed how one designs compensation schemes that address the needs of victims of mass disasters. Some of these events might be natural (i.e., storms) and others...
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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...
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 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....
At the recent Annual Meeting of the CPR Institute in New York, Cornell Professor David B. Lipsky presented some of the results from a recent survey of the Fortune 1000, comparing the current use of ADR with the use that was reported in a similar survey in 1997. The results...