An interesting presentation on dispute prevention was featured at the recent UIA World Mediation Forum in Prague. The presenters demonstrated that project managers, not lawyers, may be the best equipped to save time and money by avoiding disputes. ...
A particularly insightful presentation on the use of mediation in sports was offered at last month's World Mediation Forum in Prague. Ozlem Susler from La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia (whom Forum co-President Colin Wall called “Oz from Oz”) moderated the presentation. She noted that sports is a substantial economic driver...
There seems to be a presumption that being a mediator implicates public policy, and that the practice of mediation needs to be somehow regulated for the public good. In my region, for example, one must demonstrate training, skills or both in order to be listed on various court-annexed mediation panels. At...
During a recent meeting of the Dispute Resolution Committee of the ABA Business Law Section, GE Oil & Gas Assistant General Counsel Mike McIlwrath shared some cogent and stimulating -- and personal -- observations on the responsibility that corporate end-users must take for the process of international arbitration. Soon after...
The ADR Committee of the ABA Trial, Tort and Insurance Practice Section (TIPS) sponsors a periodic series of telephonic programs on the Psychology of Conflict Resolution. The programs are organized and moderated by San Francisco mediator Elizabeth Bader, a professional of wide-ranging gifts whose friendship I and many others value...
The May 2013 issue of the IBA Dispute Resolution Section's journal, Dispute Resolution International, has a concise and compelling article by Mark H. Alcott addressing "Post-Award Attacks on Arbitrators." The title speaks for itself: the author is harshly critical of challenges to arbitral impartiality that are first asserted after an...
The 18th gathering of the World Forum of Mediation Centers was held under the auspices of the Union International des Avocats in Prague, Czech Republic, on June 7-8, 2013. Mediators and Centers came from the U.S., Canada, Algeria, Iraq, Bahrain, Ireland, France, Czech Republic, Greece, Belgium, Italy, Netherlands, Germany, Lebanon,...