Back in the day Kevin Underhill and I were young associates at large law firms in Kansas City and living the life that only single people with lots of disposable income can. Now he’s a big time lawyer in San Francisco and has the funniest legal blog there is – Lowering the Bar – and I’m simply … Continue reading If You’re Standing in Front of a Car, You Are In a Poor Negotiating Position
At the ABA Dispute Resolution Section meetings in Chicago the national rounds of the Representation in Mediation Competition were held. As always, we were very impressed with the competitors, especially the team from Faulkner University’s Thomas Jones Goode School of Law who won the championship. Congrats Faulkner and thanks to all of you who acted … Continue reading Congratulations to Faulkner University – National Champs !!
On Monday evening my ASU colleague Joe Feller was struck by a car and killed while jogging. Joe, a natural resources scholar who engaged in impact environmental litigation, was an ADR skeptic (at best) who thought collaborative processes were being used to subvert the protections offered by the country’s natural resource laws. He expressed his views … Continue reading Joe Feller – Rest in Peace
At the 2012 AALS meetings Ron Aronovsky (Southwestern) organized the ADR Section’s program entitled The Supreme Court and the Future of Arbitration. Here’s a short blurb describing the program. Over the past twenty five years, the range of disputes subject to binding arbitration – particularly as a result of pre-dispute arbitration agreements — has grown … Continue reading The Supreme Court and the Future of Arbitration
As regular readers of this blog will know, our friends Lisa Bingham and Terry Amsler were in a serious accident in London resulting in their hospitalization. Naturally the people at the Indiana University have the most up to date information on their respective conditions, and here’s the latest from Dean David Reingold of Indiana’s School of Public and Environmental Affairs: As we return from … Continue reading Lisa Bingham and Terry Amsler Update
Love ‘em or hate ‘em, the USNews rankings came out today. Here’s the rankings of law school dispute resolution programs. Pepperdine Harvard Missouri Hamline Ohio State Yeshiva (Cardozo) Oregon Marquette UC Hastings Willamette UNLV 14 schools were ranked, and once I get past the paywall, I’ll update this post w/ the remaining 3 schools. Congratulations … Continue reading US News Law School Dispute Resolution Program Rankings (updated)
According to one of the Valley’s leading news sources, a “mediation specialist” has been accused of taking contraband into the Maricopa County Jail. The story is here and a after a quick read you’ll realize that this is a simple mistake. Turns out the person charged is a Mitigation Specialist with the Public Defender’s Office. Mediation … Continue reading “Mediation Specialist” and Jail Contraband
The message below is from Alan Kirtley (U of Washington), the current Chair of AALS Section on Clinical Legal Education. Not surprisingly he is heavily involved in this year’s AALS Clinical Conference. More info about the conference is here, so I’ve taken the liberty to edit the parts of his message about the general conference. Warning – I will be sending … Continue reading ADR Clinicians Wanted – Working Group Leaders at the AALS Clinical Conference
Ok, maybe profiled is the wrong word, but at least our Indisputably colleague is quoted in the most recent NYT article on the difficulties facing legal education and the Task Force on the Future of Legal Education. You can read the entire piece here, and his quotes are below. At the University of Oregon, Michael Moffitt, … Continue reading Michael Moffitt Profiled in the New York Times
When the ABA DR Section created the Award for Outstanding Scholarly Work, I wondered how long it would take before Len Riskin (Florida) received it. And now he will, the 3rd time it’s been awarded (announcement below). The award is well deserved not only for his work, but also for the mentoring role he’s played for so many of … Continue reading Riskin to Receive ABA DR Section Award for Outstanding Scholarly Work
