Surely there are fewer better proxies for legitimacy than to be the target of The Onion. http://www.theonion.com/content/news/saints_colts_hoping_to_resolve —— Saints, Colts Hoping To Resolve Super Bowl Through Diplomacy JANUARY 29, 2010 | ONION SPORTS MIAMI—Team officials from the New Orleans Saints and Indianapolis Colts emerged from a tense, 12-hour negotiating session Thursday and told reporters that, … Continue reading Football, Diplomacy, and The Onion
A document was recently submitted to the ABA House of Delegates in support of the Uniform Collaborative Law Act. The letter was signed by about fifty prominent law professors and deans nationwide (along with some riff-raff from Oregon). If I could figure out how to attach it to this post, or if I could find … Continue reading Educators for the UCLA (no, not that UCLA)
I had imagined that I might take some months off from the idea of saying anything about college football. (Yes, yes. I sent filberts to Sarah Cole after the Rose Bowl.) But ESPN today ran a story about the prospect of the dispute between Texas Tech and recently dismissed football coach Mike Leach being resolve … Continue reading Mediation, Texas Tech & Mike Leach
We’re not big on job postings outside of legal academia here, but this is a big time ADR job. Bob Rack is retiring from his position as chief of the 6th Circuit’s mediation program, and the position has been recently posted. Here’s a description: The Chief Circuit Mediator, who serves under the direction of the … Continue reading Chief Circuit Mediator – US Court of Appeals, 6th Circuit
The Harvard Negotiation Law Review’s 2010 Symposium, the Negotiation Within, is scheduled for Saturday February 27, 2010 at the Harvard Law School. As you might anticipate, the focus is inward directed on issues such as identity and senses of self. The line up of speakers is first rate (of course) and should lead to some interesting … Continue reading Harvard Negotiation Law Review Symposium – The Negotiation Within
Every year the ABA’s DR Section announces two major awards, the D’Almeberte/Raven Award and the Lawyer as Problem Solver Award. The awards will be presented at the ABA DR Section’s annual conference in San Francisco. Below is a little about each award and the winner of each award. Congratulations to all. And, it’s always a pleasure when a … Continue reading ABA DR Section Announces Awards
I was listening to a great story this morning on NPR which described an interesting experiment. In his book How We Decide, and in a recent Wall Street Journal article, Jonah Lehrer writes about an experiment by Stanford University professor Baba Shiv, who collected several dozen undergraduates and divided them into two groups. In the WSJ … Continue reading Chocolate Cake v. Fruit–Or Why Get Emotional During “Rational” Negotiations
Virginia State Senator Emmet Hanger recently introduced a bill in the Virginia Senate which would give formal structure to restorative justice programs in Virginia by specifically recognizing that a court can order an offender into a “court-approved restorative justice program.” The direct link to the bill is: http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?101+ful+SB679 The bill also specifically recognizes that victim … Continue reading Restorative Justice Bill Introduced in Virginia’s Senate
FINRA Dispute Resolution recently posted its December 2009 statistics, providing interesting data for the 2009 calendar year. Not surprisingly, due the 2007-08 stock market disruptions, 2009 arbitration case filings rose 43% over 2008, from 4,982 to 7,137. At the same time, turnaround time of cases (from filing to award) happily decreased 12%, from 13.0 months to … Continue reading FINRA’s arbitration filings rise almost 50% in 2009
Over 3000 car dealerships whose franchises were terminated by GM and Chrysler as part of those automakers’ bankruptcy restructurings have until midnight this Monday (Jan. 25) to challenge their termination by filing for arbitration in the American Arbitration Association. Congress imposed this special arbitration process as part of its Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2010, an omnibus spending … Continue reading Deadline looms for closed GM and Chrysler auto dealers to challenge their termination in arbitration
