Emma Ewart of the International Mediation Institute writes: Earlier this year we circulated the article 'Time for Another Big Bang in Alternative Dispute Resolution', by Michael Leathes and Deborah Masucci: http://imimediation.org/global-pound-conference, proposing a new conference to wake up the field of ADR. We appreciated your words of support in response to that article, and before the...
The third and final part of the morning-long Commercial Finance and Dispute Resolution Symposium at the recent ABA Business Law Section Annual Meeting was a discussion, among audience and experts, of some hypotheticals implicating the obligations of attorneys who negotiate dispute resolution clauses and who represent clients in ADR procedures. The...
John Levitske of Duff & Phelps, who serves as Vice-Chair of the ABA Business Law Section’s Dispute Resolution Committee, assembled a provocative panel in Chicago on the topic: “Whether Collaborative Law Can be Used to Effectively and Efficiently Resolve Post-Merger and Acquisition Disputes.” He described it as an effort to...
The second offering of the three-part Symposium on ADR and Commercial Finance at the ABA Business Law Section Annual Meeting addressed disputes arising in long-term, high-budget, tightly-scheduled, deeply interdependent projects -- like building an airport -- where "divorce is not an option." According to Deborah Mastin, the issue is how...
The ABA Business Law Section has turned its back on the August Annual Meeting of the Association and is now convening its own Annual Meeting in Chicago a month later. It is a resounding success by any measure, but certainly from the perspective of the Business Law Section: Over 1,500...
Tom Stipanowich has posted a new article, "Managing Construction Conflict: Unfinished Revolution, Continuing Evolution," at the Pepperdine Law Library's Legal Studies Research Paper Series. Stipanowich is a trained architect, an experienced construction lawyer, and a very experienced construction arbitrator, and his article speaks authoritatively on the past 20 years of...