The ABA Dispute Resolution Section Spring Conference is always a highlight. For 2016 it's being held in New York City, making it real easy for me. The breadth and scope of the topics are, as usual, phenomenal, making this event consistently the Class Act of the ADR year. ...
Professionally, I am not given to bedazzlement. I am not among those who claim transformative or quasi-spiritual attributes to what (to me) really boils down to the learn-able professional skill of mediating business disputes. So when friends have reported their experiences attending the ICC International Mediation Competition with tears streaming...
Professor Stacie Strong of the University of Missouri has announced a student writing competition to prompt critical thinking on the dispute resolution ramifications of the events surrounding the killing in Ferguson, Missouri and elsewhere. The details of the competition are below. It will be interesting to see what examples of...
My friend and colleague Jonathan Hyman asked me to visit his ADR Survey class at Rutgers Law School a few weeks ago. Teams within the class had been assigned special topics to study and then present to the larger group, and one team was concentrating on the Corporate/Community Dialogue films...
Readers might be interested in taking a look at the User Guide and other resources developed by the Planned Early Dispute Resolution Task Force of the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution, which was co-sponsored by the AAA, CPR, and JAMS. The User Guide, largely reflecting the work of Task Force Chair...
The Marie L. Garibaldi American Inn of Court for ADR is the first (and so far the only) Inn of Court devoted expressly to the practice of arbitration, mediation and other non-judicial means of dispute resolution. Located in New Jersey, it gathers, on a monthly basis, the upper echelon of retired and...
It is a cause of dismay, in a way, that the ABA has published John Lande's superb book, Lawyering with Early Planned Negotiation: How You Can Get Good Results for Clients and Make Money. More than a generation since Frank Sander espoused the "Multi-Door Courthouse," and Jim Henry founded CPR Institute,...
