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
FOI Peter Reilly just announced the winners of this year’s ABA Boskey Writing Competition, stating: “We had another year of very strong papers.” The winner and runner-up papers were: WINNER: John Kelly (Loyola School of Law, Los Angeles), “The Cannabis Industry: Harvesting the Benefits of a Counter-Narrative Model to Arbitration” RUNNER-UP: Brian Holb (The Ohio State … Continue reading Winners of ABA Boskey Writing Competition
By now you’ve probably heard that Equifax was hacked and the personal data for approximately half the country has been compromised. Naturally, you should check to see if you were affected here. I’m proud to say that I’m potentially affected and scheduled to work with them on Wednesday – yay! On Friday evening on the … Continue reading The Equifax Fiasco and Dispute Resolution – updated
Former President of the American Arbitration Association. From the obituary in the Greenwich Time: Robert Coulson, an international leader in the field of arbitration and dispute resolution, died on September 9, 2017, in Stamford Hospital, Connecticut, following a stroke. He was 93 and lived in Riverside for 40 years. He was president and CEO of … Continue reading Robert Coulson (1924-2017)
Hi all–just a reminder from the ABA that they are accepting award nominations through this week! Nominations Sought! Nominations for Section Awards are due no later than September 8, 2017. The 2018 Section Award recipients will be announced at the 20th Annual ABA Section of Dispute Resolution Spring Conference at the Washington Hilton in Washington, … Continue reading ABA Award Nominations are Open
Throughout the year I do my best to keep track of faculty moves and the like and post them here to help spread the news. This year’s list is pretty light compared to the last few years, but some big things were afoot – like you weren’t paying attention. If you know of any moves, … Continue reading Comings and Goings – 2017 edition
Registration for the 11th Annual Works-in-Progress Conference at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law is open for 10 more days. The conference is scheduled on Friday and Saturday, October 20th and 21st, with a welcome dinner on Thursday evening October 19th. Come to share current research, obtain feedback, exchange ideas, connect with colleagues, and … Continue reading Just 10 Days Left . . .
