The only people to whom the following is news are people who will not consider it news worth knowing, but I feel compelled to mention the unfortunate series of basketball games over the last two days, the results of which leave the NCAA tournament without a blogger’s team for which to cheer. Alas. MM … Continue reading Blogging & Bad Basketball
Article by that title in the National Law Journal about a week ago. Available here. Excerpted below. MM — Budget woes claim ADR program in Los Angeles By Amanda Bronstad The National Law Journal March 13, 2013 To address an “extreme budget shortfall,” Los Angeles County, Calif., Superior Court plans to close its alternative dispute resolution … Continue reading “Budget Woes Claim ADR Program in Los Angeles”
On February 22, Penn State is hosting an ADR symposium entitled The Role of the Courts: Judicial Review of Arbitral Awards and Mediated Settlement Agreements. Information here. I do not know the details, but Nancy Welsh tells me that it will be available via webcast for those of us who can’t make it to Pennsylvania. … Continue reading Watch (if you can’t go to) the Upcoming Penn State Symposium Online
From Bob Bordone at Harvard: The Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program is searching for a new Assistant Director to begin on July 1, 2013. We are looking for someone who can be both an innovative teacher and a strong, collaborative administrator with excellent team-building and strategic planning skills. I imagine this position to be … Continue reading Job Posting: Harvard Negotiation & Mediaion Clinical Program
From an opinion piece in this morning’s National Law Journal (article here): … Just as companies can implement a systems-based approach to manufacturing, sales and other business functions, general counsel can implement a system for managing legal cases, with an eye toward avoiding litigation and its attendant costs at the earliest possible juncture. A group … Continue reading 21st Century CPR Pledge
From Susan Raines at Kennesaw State: Conflict Resolution Quarterly publishes scholarship on relationships between theory, research, and practice in the conflict management and dispute resolution field to promote more effective professional applications. Conflict Resolution Quarterly is sponsored by the Association for Conflict Resolution. Articles may focus on any aspect of the conflict resolution process or … Continue reading CRQ Call for Papers on Organizational DR
Jeff Kichaven, a thoughtful, experienced, and talented L.A. lawyer and mediator recently posted an article entitled, “The Mediation Advocate’s Bill of Rights” at mediate.com and at law360.com. Link here. I am not entirely persuaded that this is a bill of rights. I am not entirely persuaded that this is universally applicable to all forms of … Continue reading Kichaven’s “Mediation Advocate’s Bill of Rights”
The UN recently released its guidance for international mediators. Press release here. Formal document here. I can’t say that I’ve read it with great care. The first thing that jumped out at me was its treatment of the topic of impartiality. I would not have guessed the UN, in particular, to have been so insistent … Continue reading UN Guidance on Effective Mediation
The article about Roger’s death in The Economist appears online here. The memorial service for Roger will take place on Saturday, October 27th, at 11am at Harvard’s Memorial Church in Harvard Yard in Cambridge. A reception will follow at Loeb House. MM
Roger Fisher passed away on Saturday morning. I do not yet have the words I expect I will eventually want to say about Roger. He was at different points my teacher, my mentor, my boss, and my colleague. Like many, I quite literally would not be where (or who) I am but for Roger. I … Continue reading Roger Fisher (1922-2012)
