The October 2014 issue of Dispute Resolution International (the journal of the Dispute Resolution Section of the IBA) features an excellent article by Chicago mediator/arbitrator/attorney Paul Lurie and Swiss/Israeli mediator/attorney Jeremy Lack on "Guided Choice Dispute Resolution Processes: Reducing the Time and Expense to Settlement." As the title suggests, the logic...
On Wednesday October 22, 12:50 - 2:15 pm, New York Law School's ADR Program is offering a reprise of a very successful panel from last April's ABA Business Law Section meeting in Los Angeles: "Calling All Deal Lawyers: Why Transactional Attorneys Should Get Involved in Dispute Resolution." The program features James Freund, Mediator...
Mediation in Italy has for many years seemed like teenage sex -- more people talk about it than actually do it, and those who do it, do it poorly. And it has also been a target for humor, compassion, anti-lawyer spleen-venting, and constitutional mish-mash. It seems that every few months there...
Christian Fabian of Mayer Brown made a valuable contribution to a discussion at the ABA Business Law Section last month on collaborative legal practices in merger, dissolution and other business contexts. Click here for a posting on that excellent panel. He has recently written an excellent article titled "Breaking Up is...
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...