As I blogged here, at the end of 2012, George Friedman retired as Executive Vice President and Director of Dispute Resolution of FINRA Dispute Resolution after many years in a top role there. (He remains an Adjunct Professor at Fordham where he has taught Arbitration Law for many years.) However, since his so-called retirement, he … Continue reading George Friedman’s Prolific Retirement
From the BNA Labor Reports: “A federal district court in New York Sept. 11 declined to compel financial solutions analysts pursuing a class and collective overtime action against brokerage firm Merrill Lynch to individually arbitrate their claims under the procedures of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (Zeltser v. Merrill Lynch & Co., S.D.N.Y., No. 1:13-cv-01531, … Continue reading FINRA Arbitration Rules Prohibiting Class Waiver NOT Preempted
Litigate (v.) – To resolve or avoid bureaucratic conflict. “We should cancel the speech, but I need to litigate that with the speaker’s office.” As defined in Ben Schott and Mark Leibovich’s op-chart on “Washington Words” in this morning’s Times.
From Bob Bordone: http://bit.ly/16510GL – Clinical Instructor and Lecturer on Law, Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program http://bit.ly/1aczecb – Clinical Fellow, Harvard Negotiation & Mediation Clinical Program
Paul Bland has a compelling post on the Second Circuit’s recent decision in Duran v. The J. Hass Group, in which the court enforced an arbitration agreement requiring a consumer from New York, who alleged she was defrauded of almost $4000, to arbitrate in New Mexico. Paul’s summary: This strategy worked pretty well for the defendants … Continue reading The Most Recent Example of Arbitration Overreach
Following Andrea’s lead, I thought I would write about one of the books I read this summer: Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s autobiography, My Beloved World. Overall, the book is a good read and tells an engaging story of how Sotomayor went from being the daughter of Puerto Rican immigrants who had very little formal … Continue reading An interesting summer read and a lost opportunity
I am passing along an annoucement from FOI Noam Ebner: It is time once again to prepare for the annual conference on Online Dispute Resolution, Cyberweek 2013. This online conference provides a week of activities and dialogue about the world of Online Dispute Resolution and how it relates to our work as conflict specialists. Cyberweek … Continue reading Cyberweek 2013 and Call for Proposals
I haven’t had the time to review the terms of the NFL’s concussion settlement with former players, but I’ve heard a lot of news coverage of it. On the Valley’s two morning drive-time sports talk shows (one local, one national) there was a lot of talk about the settlement and judging of winners and losers. … Continue reading The NFL Concussion Settlement
Earlier this summer my wife was visiting w/ one of her law school classmates on a leisurely Sunday morning. As they were catching up, the friend mentioned that someone in her office had agreed to renew as an adjunct at one of their local law schools. Originally, the friend’s colleague was asked to teach Property, … Continue reading Mediation and Three Other Words
We hope that you are enjoying your last gasps of summer, kicking the kids out of the house and into school, and ready to teach/practice/work! A few of us will be sharing a bit from our summer break including what we read, what we wrote, and what we are going to be adding to our … Continue reading What I Did on My Summer Vacation…
