All posts by Jill Gross

Update: Investor Protection Act and Securities Arbitration

On November 5, I blogged (here) about the House Financial Services Committee’s Investor Protection Act and its provision empowering the SEC to enact regulations banning mandatory arbitration in customer-broker account agreements.  In that post, I wrote: “I don’t quite understand the significance of this provision, as I understood that the SEC already has the authority under the … Continue reading Update: Investor Protection Act and Securities Arbitration →

Mediation Video Contest

The ABA Section of Dispute Resolution is sponsoring a Mediation Video Contest on YouTube.  Details are here.  The Section seeks “creative, thoughtful, original three-minute videos that demonstrate the mediation process and benefits of mediation. The goal of the competition is to further public understanding of mediation and to promote the use of mediation as a … Continue reading Mediation Video Contest →

Investor Protection Act and Securities Arbitration

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Yesterday the House Financial Services Committee voted to recommend that the full House vote on the Investor Protection Act of 2009, H.R. 3817.  While the focus of the bill is to protect investors through enhanced regulations in the securities industry, one provision threatens to eliminate the mandatory arbitration of customer-broker disputes.   Section 201 of the bill … Continue reading Investor Protection Act and Securities Arbitration →

A Report from PIABA’s Annual Meeting

I just returned from the Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association Annual Meeting in Carlsbad, CA, which featured four days of lively and informative panels and breakout sessions for securities arbitration practitioners.   At the opening plenary session, representatives from PIABA, FINRA and NASAA (North American Securities Administrators Association) debated the relative merits of the only securities arbitration forum … Continue reading A Report from PIABA’s Annual Meeting →

Call for ADR-related articles

The Appalachia Journal of Law is looking for ADR-related articles for its Spring 2010 issue.  If you wish to be considered, please forward your communications to Blaire Woods, the Articles Editor, at blairnwood@gmail.com.   ASL has produced an ADR-dedicated issue since Spring 2006. 

Annual Cardozo ADR Symposium

Cardozo Law School’s Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution is hosting its Eleventh Annual Symposium, entitled, Conflict Resolution at Work: ADR in the Public and Private Sectors, on Thursday, November 5th, 2009.  This event will have panel discussions focusing on the practical application of ADR in the fields of health care, real estate, and government.  See www.cardozojcr.com, for … Continue reading Annual Cardozo ADR Symposium →

Kheel Center Environmental ADR Conference

On November 17, 2009, Pace Law School’s Kheel Center on the Resolution of Environmental Interest Disputes will present an all-day conference at The University Club in New York City (One West 54th St) entitled “Changing Times, Changing Legal Practice: Effective Legal Strategies to Resolve New Environmental Disputes.”   The registration deadline is November 6.  A registration form … Continue reading Kheel Center Environmental ADR Conference →

Frontline Champion Award to Professor Lela Love

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Kudos to ADR Professor Lela Love (Cardozo) for winning the Frontline Champion Award at last week’s Mediation Settlement Day celebration (October 15, 2009), an annual event co-sponsored by FINRA Dispute Resolution, The New York State Unified Court System, alternative dispute resolution programs, bar associations, community based programs, schools, public and non-profit organizations concentrated in the New … Continue reading Frontline Champion Award to Professor Lela Love →

Only in New York…

Yesterday, according to this New York Times article, at a New York Knicks exhibition game at Madison Square Garden against Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv, a rabbi utilized conflict resolution techniques to convince the Maccabi team’s coach to leave the floor after being ejected by the referee for challenging a call (it was the coach’s second technical foul of … Continue reading Only in New York… →

FINRA Expands Its Public Arbitrator Pilot Program

FINRA Dispute Resolution announced earlier this week that it is expanding the pilot program it launched in 2008 to provide investors with more choice in selecting arbitrators for customer cases heard by FINRA arbitrators.  Rather than being forced to select at least one industry arbitrator on all three-arbitrator panels, FINRA gave investors the right, in essence, to strike … Continue reading FINRA Expands Its Public Arbitrator Pilot Program →