Many colleagues at the AALS ADR Section Works-in-Progress Conference focused on various aspects of artificial intelligence (AI). Their papers included the following: The Bots are Coming: How Can Law Professors Stay One Step Ahead?, Hal Abramson (Touro) Detecting and Challenging AI Drafted Arbitration Awards, Rishi Batra (McGeorge) Data Resolution: How AI Agents Change Conflict, Simon … Continue reading AI at the WIP
Hal Abramson’s article, Time-Pressured Negotiations, deals with a very real phenomenon in real life. It considers how to negotiate when you do not have the time to use your best negotiation practices. He writes that no other article has considered what to do when in a time-pressured negotiation other than to advise you not to … Continue reading Hal Abramson on Time-Pressured Negotiations
The quality of AI outputs depends on users’ skill in inputting good prompts. That’s the premise of my new article: The Art of AI Prompting in Law and Dispute Resolution Practice. It provides practical guidance about how to use AI tools responsibly, ethically, and effectively. It describes core skills including: Choosing the right AI tool … Continue reading The Art of the Prompt for Lawyers, Mediators, and Arbitrators
This post introduces a new 27-minute video, How Faculty and Students Can Use AI Effectively, which outlines principles for using artificial intelligence in legal education and dispute resolution. It explains how to write effective prompts, assess AI responses, and use these tools responsibly. The video provides a general introduction to AI, including tips for using … Continue reading How Faculty and Students Can Use AI Effectively
Imagine doing your work without word processing, spell checkers, email, the internet, search engines, voicemail, cell phones, or Zoom. That’s how you’ll probably feel in the not-too-distant future about working without artificial intelligence (AI). Innovations often seem radical at first. In time, people just take them for granted. ABA Formal Opinion 512 states that lawyers … Continue reading AI and Dispute Resolution: Why You’ll Need It Sooner Than You Think
Would you like to see how a cool AI-DR tool works? If so, come to a program, Using AI to Help Mediators, Attorneys and Parties. It will be on Zoom on Wednesday, May 28, at 10 PT, 11 MT, noon CT, 1 ET. The program will be an hour – and you can stay on … Continue reading Zoom Program on May 28: Using AI to Help Mediators, Attorneys, and Parties
We all know that it’s bad to be biased, right? Wrong. That assumption is its own bad bias. Biases are inevitable – in humans and bots alike. Some biases are harmful. Others are helpful. Many are neutral. But bias itself is unavoidable. So bias isn’t a problem in itself. Pretending otherwise is. This post describes … Continue reading RPS Coach is Biased – And Proud of It
AI tools can help students and trainees get more out of simulations, which are key parts of many courses and trainings. People generally love doing simulations but often don’t have enough time to get their full benefit. That’s where AI really can add value. Training the Coach The RPS Negotiation and Mediation Coach (RPS Coach) … Continue reading Using RPS Coach in Simulations
Until January 27, I hadn’t planned to develop an AI tool for dispute resolution . That changed when I Zoomed into a program where Susan Guthrie showed how AI could be used in mediation. A brief conversation at the end shifted from mediating disputes to improving writing – and that’s when a light bulb lit … Continue reading The Artificially Intelligent RPS Negotiation and Mediation Coach
Brian Pappas, Bridget McCormack and I are seeking submissions to include in our upcoming book project that we intend to publish with DRI Press. We previously invited a small group of experts in Negotiation, Mediation and Arbitration to submit their favorite exercise to us, and received some great entries. We are now widening our call, … Continue reading Please Send Us Your Favorite ADR Exercise(s)!
