The Fellows of the Amerian Bar Foundation have selected FOI Carrie Menkel-Meadow (UC-Irvine) as the 2018 recipient of the ABF Outstanding Scholar Award.  According to the ABF’s Executive Director Ajay K. Mehrota: The award recognizes your decades-long work in creating, building, shaping, and internationalizing what has become the field of alternative dispute resolution, and your … Continue reading Carrie Menkel-Meadow Wins American Bar Foundation Outstanding Scholar Award →

I’m thrilled to share this exciting news from the AALS clinical law section with those of you who haven’t yet heard: Professor Carol Izumi has been awarded the 2017 William Pincus Award for Outstanding Service and Commitment to Clinical Legal Education. Carol is being recognized for her longtime service to the AALS, including her service … Continue reading Professor Carol Izumi to receive 2017 William Pincus Award →

Over seven years ago, I wrote about negotiations I have lost.  It’s a good reminder, as we head into the end of the semester, that even professors do not get it right all of the time.  As I noted: In honor of my students turning in their final Negotiation journals today and in the spirit of … Continue reading The Best Negotiation I Ever Lost–RIP Brady →

Virtually all customers of FINRA-registered broker-dealer firms (in essence, all broker-dealers) are required to arbitrate their disputes with those firms and their associated persons. Many of those disputes are required to be arbitrated in the FINRA Dispute Resolution forum.  Currently, FINRA permits parties to be represented by non-attorneys (NAR) (subject to a few restrictions  such … Continue reading FINRA Seeks Comment on Non-Attorney Representation in FINRA Arbitration →