From Dwight Golann, this is the follow-up to a great session at the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution meeting. First, I am linking to the ABA and Goldberg/Shaw studies on Mediator Quality which served as background for the Shoptalk session. These are both on John Barkai’s website as well. Second, below are the summaries of the … Continue reading Mediation ShopTalk
Another call for papers, this one is from our friends at Washington University in St. Louis. The call for papers, almost in its entirety, is below: In fall 2007, the Washington University School of Law Clinical Education Program sponsored a very successful scholarship roundtable on New Directions in Clinical Theory, Teaching, and Practice. Papers from … Continue reading Another Call for Papers – New Directions in ADR Theory, Teaching, and Practice
Our friends at UNLV are blog worthy again, this time with a request for proposals. The RFP is in its entirety below. The Saltman Center for Conflict Resolution at the Boyd School of Law, UNLV, together with a consortium of local practitioners, is putting together a conference for February 12-13, 2010 that is tentatively entitled: … Continue reading Request for Proposals – The Economic Crisis and Conflict Resolution
As reported in the April edition of the Resolution System Institute’s Court ADR Connection e-newsletter (a great e-newsletter devoted to information on Court ADR) A report recently released by the American College of Trial Lawyers Task Force on Discovery includes a recommendation that courts should “raise thepossibility” of pre-trial mediation and other ADR processes, and … Continue reading American College of Trial Lawyers Task Force Recommends Use of ADR
Jean Sternlight just sent around the following announcement about Len Riskin’s recent visit to UNLV: The Saltman Center for Conflict Resolution at UNLV Boyd School of Law was recently privileged to host Professor Leonard Riskin (U. Florida) as our annual Saltman Lecturer. Len’s topic was: “Awareness in Dispute Resolution and Law.” He explored how mindfulness … Continue reading Len Riskin – webcast of Saltman Lecture
The Searle Civil Justice Institute recently added further evidence to inform the ongoing debate about the benefits and drawbacks of consumer arbitration. The March 2009 preliminary report, which reviewed 301 consumer arbitration cases administered by AAA, makes a number of findings: “The upfront cost of arbitration for consumer claimants in cases administered by the AAA … Continue reading Searle Civil Justice Institute Finds Consumer Arbitration Fair
The US News rankings are out, and as usual, they are controversial. In the overall law school rankings, their methodology is questionable as all kinds of factors are counted and law schools have (shocker) learned how to game the system. In the specialty rankings, my understanding is that the rankings are based purely on reputational … Continue reading 2009 US News Rankings – Dispute Resolution Edition
Hi–I’ve copied the announcement for the ABA’s annual law student writing competition in Dispute Resolution. Please encourage all of your students to apply! James Boskey ADR Writing Competition First Prize: $1000 to the Competition winner and an invitation to publish in Penn State’s Dickinson School of Law’s Yearbook On Arbitration and Mediation The essay may … Continue reading Boskey Writing Competition
The New York Times ran an article about the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s agreement about the agreement that led to the return of disputed artifacts to Italy in exchange for a system of rotating pieces on loan. Yesterday came word through Reuters that the Getty will be receiving antiquities on loan from the National Archeological … Continue reading ADR and Art Disputes
As an exercise for my ethics class, I had each student write down their top ten commandments of billing in the hope that they would both learn and have these rules in a nice, easy place to find and print once they start practice. As the Ten Commandments was on this past weekend, it seems … Continue reading The Ten Commandments (of Billing)
