All posts by Jill Gross

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 →

Resolving the circuit split over manifest disregard

Two recent articles have been published regarding the evolving circuit split as to whether the “manifest disregard of the law” standard of review of arbitration awards survives the Supreme Court’s 2008 decision in Hall Street.  Each article offers a different framework in which to analyze Hall Street and its impact on the manifest disregard standard of vacatur, … Continue reading Resolving the circuit split over manifest disregard →

Finally, a TV show about a mediator…

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After enduring decades of TV shows about litigators, prosecutors, defenders and judges, we can look forward to viewing a new TV series that USA Network is poised to launch about a divorced lawyer turned mediator, according to this article in The Hollywood Reporter.   It remains to be seen, however, whether the show will portray mediators fairly and accurately.   … Continue reading Finally, a TV show about a mediator… →

Mediating family religious disputes?

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Teaching really does have its rewards.  Last week I emphasized to the students in my Mediation & Arbitration class that one question they should ask themselves throughout the semester is whether the dispute resolution process used in any particular dispute is appropriate for that dispute.  A few days later a student in that class brought this article to … Continue reading Mediating family religious disputes? →

Conflict Resolution Day

From Sharon Press at the Association for Conflict Resolution: Hopefully many of you already know about Conflict Resolution Day which is an annual event sponsored by the Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR) to: promote awareness of mediation arbitration, conciliation and other creative, peaceful means of resolving conflict; promote the use of conflict resolution in schools, families, … Continue reading Conflict Resolution Day →

Bank of America Drops Credit Card Dispute Arbitration Requirement

In an interesting development, Bank of America announced yesterday that it would remove its pre-dispute arbitration clause from its credit card agreements.  See AP report here.  This development cannot be a coincidence and surely is tied to the increasing Congressional scrutiny over mandatory consumer arbitration and the National Arbitration Forum’s decision to exit the consumer … Continue reading Bank of America Drops Credit Card Dispute Arbitration Requirement →