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
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
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.
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
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
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
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 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
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
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…
