As I clear my desk off after having completed a major project, I’m looking through the stacks of routing materials that have been awaiting my attention. In the November 2009 issue of Alternatives to the High Cost of Litigation, Charlie Craver (George Washington Univ. Law School) has an interesting piece discussing negotiation styles. He critiques … Continue reading A New Take on Negotiation Styles
For those interested in the important and growing field of Environmental Dispute Resolution, the Pace Environmental Law Review just published a special volume entitled “Environmental Interest Dispute Resolution Changing Times-Changing Practice.” I contributed a co-authored piece on Environmental Dispute Resolution in the Law School Curriculum. Other scholarship published includes: ENVIRONMENTAL INTEREST DISPUTE RESOLUTION: CHANGING TIMES— … Continue reading Pace Environmental Law Review publishes special volume devoted to EDR
FINRA’s Investor Education Foundation recently has awarded grants to four law schools (Howard, Pepperdine, Florida International and Suffolk) to start Investor Advocacy law school clinics (securities arbitration) in law schools located outside of New York. See Press Release, here. Currently, approximately 14 law schools operate securities/investor rights clinics, but most are in the New York metropolitan area. As a result … Continue reading Want to run a securities arbitration clinic?
You can now register here for the ABA Section on Dispute Resolution Spring Conference in San Francisco, CA. It will take place April 7-10, 2010 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco. Wednesday, April 7 will feature two separate one-day symposia on Collaborative Law and Court ADR. The Legal Educators’ Colloquium will take place on Saturday, April 10. I hope … Continue reading Registration now open for the ABA DR Spring Conference
I am just returning from UNLV’s wonderful conference on Conflict Resolution in a time of Economic Crisis. We (myself & Natalie Fleury, our program manager for dispute resolution here at Marquette) were part of a panel talking about foreclosure mediation around the country. Speakers on our panel discussed Ohio, Florida, Nevada in addition to ours. … Continue reading Foreclosure Mediation Program Differences?
… has now appeared in print [cluttering your mailboxes soon] and online [here]. My article is undoubtedly not the best researched. (I’d personally give that prize to Amy Cohen’s article.) Mine may be the funniest, though. That counts, right? Please say “yes,” because I’m up for promotion this year, and that’s pretty much been my … Continue reading Fordham Law Review symposium issue on Owen Fiss
Many of you know that I’ve spent a considerable amount of time studying attorney negotiation ethics the past few years, and as a result, I’ve been speaking on the topic to both academic and practitioner audiences quite a bit. One constant I’ve noticed is that almost everyone knows that puffing is a form of acceptable … Continue reading The Best Blog Post About Puffing Ever
In December I wrote about the apology a Maricopa County Sheriff’s Detention Officer was ordered to give after taking some papers from the defense attorney’s file in open court. To refresh your recollection, the Detention Officer refused to apologize for conduct he thought was appropriate, so the Judge held him in contempt of court and ordered him to … Continue reading Appellate Arguments – the Sheriff’s Detention Officer and His Refusal to Apologize
The University of Oregon School of Law is pleased to host this year’s installment of the ADR Works-in-Progress Conference. We’ll be gathering in Eugene, Oregon, October 15-16, 2010. Lots more information soon. (No, Andrea, no details yet on precisely which local wines we’ll be serving.) For now, please mark the dates on your calendars and … Continue reading 2010 Works-In-Progress, October in Oregon
Today, AT&T filed a petition for certiorari in AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion, raising the question “[w]hether the FAA preempts States from conditioning the enforcement of an arbitration agreement on the availability of particular procedures–here, class-wide arbitration–when those procedures are not necessary to ensure that the parties to the arbitration agreement are able to vindicate … Continue reading Cert Petition Filed Raising FAA Preemption — Concepcion
