Two recent dispute resolution notes: First, many of you may have heard about Netflix’s amusing cease-and-desist letter to the pop-up bar in Chicago decorated with an unauthorized “Stranger Things” theme. (For those of you who haven’t watched the show, watch it!) The text of the letter: Danny and Doug, My walkie talkie is busted so … Continue reading Stranger Things
In recent weeks, we have had problems with a flood of spam comments overwhelming our ability to moderate them. This problem appears to be fixed now. If you want to post a comment, please write it in a word processing document in case the glitch reappears. If your comment isn’t approved and posted within a … Continue reading Comments on the Blog
FOI Alyson Carrel (Northwestern) sends this dispatch from the Stanford Law + Design Summit at Stanford last week. Last Friday, I had the opportunity to attend the Stanford Law + Design Summit hosted by their Legal Design Lab. Although I was invited to attend because of my new role at the law school in legal technology, … Continue reading Carrel on the Stanford Law + Design Summit
I recently posted about the Equifax Fiasco, and am still having problems getting everything straightened out with them. I’m resigned to thinking that when 143 million people try to do something at once, there will always be bottlenecks. FOI Jean Sternlight (UNLV) had a recent op-ed in Law360 discussing how the Equifax Fiasco relates to … Continue reading Sternlight on the Equifax Fiasco
From Resolution Systems Institute My name is Nicole Wilmet and I am the Resource Center Director at Resolution Systems Institute (RSI). As an organizer of your state’s court ADR program, I am delighted to inform you that RSI, the source for information about court alternative dispute resolution, has a brand new website! At the updated … Continue reading New Resolution Systems Institute (RSI) Website
Brad Heckman, CEO of the New York Peace Institute, will deliver the Moritz College of Law at the Ohio State University’s Annual Lawrence Lecture on Dispute Resolution during the lunch hour on September 28 in Moritz’s Saxbe Auditorium. For more information or to register go to go.osu.edu/Lawrence2017. Brad’s lecture “Mediation on the Beat: Bringing Conflict … Continue reading NY Peace Institute’s Brad Heckman to Deliver Ohio State’s Lawrence Lecture
The National Law Journal reported yesterday on SettlementAnalytics and their predictive algorithms. “The world’s first quantitative legal measurement to indicate the likelihood of a lawsuit proceeding all the way to trial and adjudication” according to the company. I am profoundly skeptical. Or perhaps more accurately, I can easily imagine distortions (or worse) masquerading as mathematical … Continue reading AI and Predicting Settlement
From Jackie Font-Guzmán: We have a call for chapters of a book I am co-editing, Running with Scissors: Leading in Uncertainty. Anyone who has a powerful leadership story to share in the times we are living is welcome to submit an abstract. This new leadership book series will focus on personal leadership accounts from … Continue reading Call for Papers: Running With Scissors
I was really pleased to meet Randall Kiser at last year’s ABA conference. I was very impressed by his important study (co-authored with Martin Asher and Blakeley McShane), Let’s Not Make a Deal: An Empirical Examination of Decision Making in Unsuccessful Negotiations. The top-line finding was that in 85.5% of cases, parties went to trial … Continue reading Kiser’s Soft Skills for the Effective Lawyer
From Lauren Saunders, Associate Director, National Consumer Law Center: Folks, Thanks so much for signing the letter to the Senate asking it not to overturn the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s rule prohibiting consumer financial products from having forced arbitration clauses with class action bans and requiring the collection of data on individual arbitrations. I wanted to let you … Continue reading Chance to Support CFPB Arbitration Rule – Sept. 22 Deadline
