Many of you know that I’ve spent a considerable amount of time studying attorney negotiation ethics the past few years, and as a result, I’ve been speaking on the topic to both academic and practitioner audiences quite a bit. One constant I’ve noticed is that almost everyone knows that puffing is a form of acceptable … Continue reading The Best Blog Post About Puffing Ever
In December I wrote about the apology a Maricopa County Sheriff’s Detention Officer was ordered to give after taking some papers from the defense attorney’s file in open court. To refresh your recollection, the Detention Officer refused to apologize for conduct he thought was appropriate, so the Judge held him in contempt of court and ordered him to … Continue reading Appellate Arguments – the Sheriff’s Detention Officer and His Refusal to Apologize
We’re not big on job postings outside of legal academia here, but this is a big time ADR job. Bob Rack is retiring from his position as chief of the 6th Circuit’s mediation program, and the position has been recently posted. Here’s a description: The Chief Circuit Mediator, who serves under the direction of the … Continue reading Chief Circuit Mediator – US Court of Appeals, 6th Circuit
The Harvard Negotiation Law Review’s 2010 Symposium, the Negotiation Within, is scheduled for Saturday February 27, 2010 at the Harvard Law School. As you might anticipate, the focus is inward directed on issues such as identity and senses of self. The line up of speakers is first rate (of course) and should lead to some interesting … Continue reading Harvard Negotiation Law Review Symposium – The Negotiation Within
Every year the ABA’s DR Section announces two major awards, the D’Almeberte/Raven Award and the Lawyer as Problem Solver Award. The awards will be presented at the ABA DR Section’s annual conference in San Francisco. Below is a little about each award and the winner of each award. Congratulations to all. And, it’s always a pleasure when a … Continue reading ABA DR Section Announces Awards
If you’re a reader of this blog, you know that arbitation is a hot legal topic and that the Supremes have handed down several arbitration decisions over the last few years. Earlier today Sarah told us that cert was recently granted in the Rent-a-Center West case, and she gave us her take. Below, Professor Jean Sternlight from the … Continue reading Sternlight on Rent-a-Center West
The annual Empiricial Scholarshiop Workshop, a joint effort of Northwestern University Law School and Washington University Law School, will take place on May 24-26 at the Norwestern campus in downtown Chicago. If you’re wondering whether this conference is for you, here’s a short description. The Conducting Empirical Legal Scholarship workshop is for law school faculty interested in … Continue reading Empirical Scholarship Workshop
It was great seeing many of you at the AALS meetings in blistering cold New Orleans over the weekend. Yup, it was damn cold, and my tolerance for cold weather has dramatically dipped since my move to warm and sunny Arizona. I’ll be blogging later about the paneled discussion on negotiation ethics I participated in (thanks … Continue reading AALS redux
If you are heading to the AALS conference in New Orleans later this week, I want to bring your attention to the ADR Section’s panel on negotiation ethics on Friday afternoon from 4:00 to 5:45pm. The program is entitled, Overcoming the Difficulties of Teaching Negotiation Ethics, and a short description is below. This is going to be … Continue reading An AALS Panel You Won’t Want to Miss
When do mediation and boxing go together? Answer: in the strange case of scheduling a championship boxing match between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao. Yes, these two fighters have scheduled a mediation to help schedule a boxing match. Just to give a little bit of background, these two boxers are considered the best pound-for-pound fighters in the … Continue reading Mediation and Boxing
