In New Jersey, the Superior Court Appellate Division recently approved for publication a decision in which a party to a mediation successfully sought to enforce a settlement agreement reached orally but not commited to writing during the mediation. The objecting party had claimed that (a) the New Jersey Rule pursuant...
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...
Here's a great title for a panel at the ABA Annual Meeting in Toronto: "How Arbitrators Think and What You and They Can Do About It: A Journey Into the Minds of Arbitrators." Hey, I'm an arbitrator. And like Derek Jeter I always want to improve my game every time I...
A highlight of the 2011 ABA Annual Meeting in Toronto was a session on “Wikileaks, National Security and Free Speech.” Moderated by Devon Chafee, Legislative Counsel for the American Civil Liberies Union, the panel boasted McInnes Cooper partner and privacy expert David T.S. Fraser; Charles D. Tobin of Holland &...