This photo album includes photos from the annual ABA SDR Conference and annual Northwest DR Conference. I particularly like to capture and share photos of pioneers in our field as you can see in some of the earlier albums and you will see in future albums. This album includes a shot of Stephen Goldberg who … Continue reading Photo Album – 2012
This photo album includes photos from the ABA SDR conference as well as the AALS Works-In-Progress Conference. Len Riskin was given the scholarship award at the SDR Conference, which was held in Chicago. Lela Love’s Cardozo Law School hosted the WIP in New York City. This is the only WIP I have been able to … Continue reading Photo Album – 2013
I got around a lot in 2014 as you can see in this photo album. My year started in Israel as I was fortunate that Yael Efron arranged invitations for me to give talks at her school in Zefat. It so happened that a bunch of FOIs were in Israel at the time and I … Continue reading Photo Album – 2014
This next photo album is from the ABA SDR conference in Seattle. Jean Sternlight received the annual scholarship award and attended with her law school and real-life family. Back row: Michael Saltman, Sonja Saltman, Dean Daniel Hamilton, Sylvia Lazos. Front row: Ben Sternlight Lazos, Jean Sternlight, Samuel Sternlight Lazos. Sarah Cole, Cynthia Alkon, Jill Gross, … Continue reading Photo Album – 2015
This is the first in a series of photo albums of friends and colleagues in our field, as described in a recent post. These shots are from the ABA conference a few weeks ago. Bob Mnookin received the scholarship award and I was too slow to get a shot of him receiving it from Jean … Continue reading Photo Album – 2016 ABA Conference
I love taking pictures of people. Photos can convey people’s spirits so vividly. I especially like to take pictures of smiling faces, and I have a patented method for eliciting them. And I really like reflecting images of our community, which means so much to me. I have been taking pictures of people at DR … Continue reading Dispute Resolution Community Photo Album
From FFOI Sharon Press and Bobbi McAdoo: Dear Colleagues, The Annual ABA Section of Dispute Resolution Conference is almost here and that means it is once again time for us to collect information for the annual Legal Educators’ Resource Share! This year’s event will take place on Friday, April 8 from 4:45 pm – 6:00 … Continue reading Resource Share at the ABA Legal Educators’ Colloquium
I love the annual conference of the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution. It’s my annual reunion with friends from all over and a chance to meet folks I haven’t met before. I love the mix of practitioners, administrators, researchers, academics, and students, among others, who share an interest in improving dispute resolution. The conference also … Continue reading Some Sessions at the ABA DR Conference That Intrigue Me
My friend, Lisa Renee Pomerantz, a New York lawyer and neutral, wrote an article on consumer arbitration in ACResolution that you might want to check out. It chronicles a history of efforts to regulate and improve consumer arbitration, leading up to the recent study and proposed rules issued by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. It … Continue reading Pomerantz and DR Section on Consumer Arbitration
Last week I announced the Divided Community Project housed at OSU’s Moritz College of Law. Today—in the second of three posts—I wanted to share the Project’s first publications. Key Considerations for Community Leaders Facing Civil Unrest: Effective Problem-Solving Strategies That Have Been Used in Other Communities, provides background information and expertise for local community leaders … Continue reading Addressing Community Division and Civil Unrest – Divided Community Project Part 2
