From BFOI Linda Seely on behalf of Kanika S. Singh, ABA Dispute Resolution Section Student Liaison: Here are some upcoming events to let your students know about (and consider attending yourself): (1) Campus Events / Visits: Please take advantage of your ABA DR section resources such as your student liaison (me), staff, and section volunteers!! … Continue reading Upcoming ABA DR Section Events For Students and Others
From SFOI Sheila Purcell Dear Colleagues, We hope this finds you well at this unusual time. I write from (smoky!) Northern California to invite you to: New Frontiers in ADR A virtual “lunch and learn” Speaker Series! Mark your calendar and register for these two, free events, which will take place at noon Pacific, 1 Mountain, … Continue reading Hastings Programs with Grande Lum and John Lande on October 14 and 28
From TFOI Elayne Greenberg: The Hugh L. Carey Center for Dispute Resolution at St. John’s School of Law invites you to a virtual program celebrating: 2020 Mangano Dispute Resolution Advancement Award Recipients: University of Illinois College of Law Professors Verity Winship and Jennifer K. Robbennolt. Professors Winship and Robbennolt will present their award-winning research reported … Continue reading Program with Mangano Award Recipients on September 21
On Tuesday September 22, 2020 (beginning at 12:10 eastern), Alyson Carrel will deliver The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law’s 2020 Lawrence Lecture on Dispute Resolution: “Reimagining Negotiation for the 21st Century.” Here is the description from OSU’s website. The current pandemics have forced the ADR field (and the world) to embrace the growing … Continue reading Alyson Carrel to Deliver Moritz’s 2020 Lawrence Lecture – Virtually
From FFOI Susan Yates about the latest resource from the invaluable Resolution Systems Institute (RSI): As the pandemic wears on, courts have been transitioning services online and exploring how ADR and ODR can aid their communities in new ways. Given the challenging nature of the situation, I am pleased to share a newly completed resource … Continue reading RSI’s Complete “Guide to Program Success” Now Available!
Recently posted by the folks at CBI. https://www.cbi.org/article/running-public-meetings-in-the-time-of-covid/ Very thoughtful. MM
From friend of the blog, Alexandra Crampton, a notice that the Family Court Review is doing a special issue on Covid-19. Family Law Disruption and Response during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Viral Lessons for Research, Policy, and Practice Family law systems were already overwhelmed when the Covid-19 pandemic erupted. Through varied policy and public health responses, … Continue reading Family Court Review Call for Papers
From BFOI Kristen Blankley: The State of Nebraska adopted Standards of Practice for Restorative Justice Facilitators (“Nebraska RJ Standards”), which can be found here. Kristen Blankley (University of Nebraska) chaired the committee responsible for drafting the standards, and committee involved stakeholders from across the state, including Dan Bechtol (Executive Director, Concord Mediation Center), Monica Miles-Steffens … Continue reading Nebraska Adopts Standards of Practice for Restorative Justice Facilitators
I just became a guest writer for the Kluwer Mediation Blog, which features academics and practitioners from around the world. I want to cross-pollinate Indisputably and KMB by encouraging subscribers of each blog to subscribe to the other. I hope to stimulate conversations between our communities. My first KMB post is The Evolution To Planned … Continue reading Kluwer Mediation Blog Post on the Evolution of Mediation
Everyone knows that a bottom line in a lawsuit is an immutable “line in the sand” that is accurately reported to mediators and counterparts as the least that a plaintiff would accept or most that a defendant would pay. Not really. During the life cycle of a case, lawyers start with vague and tentative bottom … Continue reading What’s a Bottom Line?
