No sooner had Colin Rule addressed my students at New York Law School but we met each other again in Washington, DC, where he was on a panel on online dispute resolution at the Annual Meeting of the ABA's Section on Dispute Resolution. Colin's seven years with EBay/Paypal, combined with...
For the past ten years (and counting), Dr. Ivan Sutter and Oxford Health Plans have been engaged in a dispute arising from a 1998 agreement pursuant to which Dr. Sutter would provide health services to Oxford's members and Oxford would compensate the doctor at a predetermined rate. Seeking quick, efficient resolution of...
J. Michael Hand didn't like the Walnut Valley Sailing Club's storage shed. A member of the club, though not disabled himself, Mr. Hand thought the structure didn't comply with the accessibility requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act. So he sued. The Walnut Valley Sailing Club didn't like being sued, and...
I remember attending the first meeting of the Dispute Resolution Section of the American Bar Association, in Boston, in 1999. I was on a panel discussing Y2K, and absolutely everybody I had ever met in ADR was in attendance. Y2K has since moved on, but the ABA Dispute Resolution Section...