In a very interesting decision by the Wisconsin Court of Appeals last week, the Court upheld an arbitration award against the large household goods store Menard’s for employment discrimination against, wait for it, its own in-house lawyer. As reported in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Menard Inc. must reinstate a woman it fired as vice president … Continue reading Wisconsin Court Affirms Arbitration Award of Reinstatement
Hi–I’ve copied the announcement for the ABA’s annual law student writing competition in Dispute Resolution. Please encourage all of your students to apply! James Boskey ADR Writing Competition First Prize: $1000 to the Competition winner and an invitation to publish in Penn State’s Dickinson School of Law’s Yearbook On Arbitration and Mediation The essay may … Continue reading Boskey Writing Competition
As an exercise for my ethics class, I had each student write down their top ten commandments of billing in the hope that they would both learn and have these rules in a nice, easy place to find and print once they start practice. As the Ten Commandments was on this past weekend, it seems … Continue reading The Ten Commandments (of Billing)
Our media files, including pictures and webcasts of the presentations, is now available. Click here for access to the pictures, videotapes, and podcasts. The written products of the conference will be in the fall issue of the Marquette Law Review.
At our International Media & Conflict Conference in March, Professor Lisa Laplante discussed the use of blogs in tracking transitional justice efforts and, in particular, her blog on the Fujimori trial in Peru. The blog is a unique bilingual effort to keep the world apprised of this trial. Yesterday, the Peruvian court announced their guilty verdict–the … Continue reading Fujimori, Blogs, and Transitional Justice
Columnists in both the New York Times and Newsweek in the last few weeks have discussed how often we tend to be persuaded by people who are just plain wrong. And, as a follow up to our media and conflict resolution conference last week, it was interested to realize what part the media plays in helping … Continue reading Fame v. Accuracy in Persuasion
Last weekend, we hosted a truly special gathering of scholars and practitioners in the area of media, journalism, international relations, communications, psychology, law and dispute resolution. I will be blogging a few more times about the conference, abstracts, and upcoming Marquette Law Review on the symposium but wanted, for now, to post a couple responses … Continue reading International Media & Conflict Resolution Conference
Last week, I taught about successive conflicts in my ethics class and there could be no better timing than the Fish & Richardson case to explain the hot potato scenario. The “hot potato doctrine” means that firms are generally prohibited from dropping smaller clients (like hot potatoes) in order to pick up more lucrative clients. … Continue reading Hot Potato Conflicts
Earlier this month, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Sudan’s president, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, for crimes against humanity and war crimes connected with Darfur. The warrant raises again the timeless question of peace versus justice. (See articles by Marquette visiting professor Lisa Laplante on outlawing amnesty and me on balancing … Continue reading Using Indictment as a Negotiation Tactic
As we continue to deal with the likes of Bernie Madoff and other swindlers who have lost millions of dollars for their investors, perhaps Elie Wiesel has a good idea on how to punish all of them. Holocaust survivor, human rights activist and author Elie Wiesel lost his entire life savings with Madoff. His charity, the … Continue reading Restorative Justice for Bernie Madoff?
