From Deborah Masucci, Chair of the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution: Cyberweek, hosted by the Werner Institute at Creighton University via www.adrhub.com, is an innovative, virtual conference to discuss various facets of the world of Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) processes. Participation in this conference, as always, is free and is facilitated via discussion forums, webinars, … Continue reading Cyberweek Ethical Dilemma Essay Contest
Today is Mediation Settlement Day. This annual event is sponsored by FINRA Dispute Resolution, the New York State Unified Court System and a coalition of over 100 alternative dispute resolution programs, bar associations, community based programs, schools, public and non-profit organizations concentrated in the New York City area, and extending beyond to upstate New York, … Continue reading Happy Mediation Settlement Day!
A column in today’s L.A. Times mentions last week’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on the proposed Arbitration Fairness Act (S. 987), and voices generally the consumer’s views against mandatory arbitration. The consumer columnist, David Lazarus, notes that the bill’s chance of emerging from the Republican-controlled House are “slim to none at the moment.”
The Chair of the Association for Conflict Resolution, Sharon Press, circulated this announcement on the AALS DR Listserv last week: October 20 (third Thursday in October) is Conflict Resolution Day (as organized by the Association for Conflict Resolution) and the week of October 17 – 23 in Mediation Week (as organized by the ABA … Continue reading Conflict Resolution Day is Coming October 20
In an article about the Supreme Court’s docket of cases pending for its new term, New York Times’ reporter Adam Liptak quotes Justice Anthony Kennedy on the reasons why the Court’s docket is more heavily oriented towards criminal and First Amendment cases. Speaking to reporters at a judicial conference in August, Justice Kennedy stated, “The … Continue reading Justice Kennedy says fewer “big civil cases” on Supreme Court’s docket due to arbitration
In a decision with potentially far-reaching importance for the scope of permissible arbitrations in FINRA’s dispute resolution forum, the Second Circuit held yesterday that an issuer who purchases auction-facilitating services for its auction rate securities from a broker-dealer is a “customer” of that broker-dealer within the meaning of FINRA Rule 12200. See UBS Financial Services Inc. … Continue reading Second Circuit expands FINRA’s arbitration jurisdiction
Here is an announcement about an interesting symposium on international arbitration: On October 21, 2011, keynote speaker Gary Born leads an international group of experts in a frank discussion of issues that can arise when parties combine litigation tactics with international commercial arbitration. The symposium, entitled “Border Skirmishes: The Intersection Between Litigation and International Commercial … Continue reading Gary Born to be keynote speaker at symposium on international arbitration
Please pass along this announcement to any law students who might be interested: Sponsored by Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association, the James E. Beckley Student Writing Competition is a writing contest for law students interested in Securities Arbitration and Securities Law. First Prize is $1000, Second Prize is $750, and Third Prize is $500. The PIABA Bar Journal Board-of-Editors publish the … Continue reading Announcing the 2011 Beckley Student Writing Competition on Securities Arbitration
That is the question raised by this post on the Legal Skills Prof Blog. The authors worry that the rise of technology-driven negotiations (e.g., software algorithms that can produce optimal settlement terms for parties) will replace the need for lawyers to negotiate for their clients. Really? Can we really automate the important search for underlying … Continue reading We don’t need to teach negotiation skills anymore?
Courtesy of the Securities Law Prof Blog, read here SEC Commissioner’s Elisse B. Walter’s comments on mandatory securities arbitration at the annual NASAA Conference. The SEC has implied for some time now that it will review securities arbitration, but other Dodd-Frank rule-making mandates have taken up all of its time. It will be interesting to … Continue reading SEC Commissioner Walter on Mandatory Arbitration
