Perhaps the single least recognized, most effective strategy for managing streams of commercial disputes is early intervention. The bundle of skills implicated by this strategy include Planned Early Negotiation, Early Case Assessment, Risk Analysis, and Decision Tree Analysis. But the objective of all of these tools is the same: To place the...
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...
The New Jersey Law Journal has published -- in both hard copy and e-book formats -- the New Jersey Arbitration Handbook, written with assurance and clarity by Hon. William A. Dreier. It is the single authoritative resource for arbitration practitioners in that jurisdiction....
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...