At the recent Annual Meeting of the CPR Institute in New York, Cornell Professor David B. Lipsky presented some of the results from a recent survey of the Fortune 1000, comparing the current use of ADR with the use that was reported in a similar survey in 1997. The results are very interesting and, for the most part, good news.
As a final report on the proceedings of the recent IBA Annual Conference, on Thursday November 3 Jane Player and I co-chaired a Panel on “The Use of ADR in the Management and Control of Dispute-Related Costs.” Read more »
The International Bar Association opens its Annual Meeting on Sunday October 30, 2011, in Dubai with an eagerly anticipated address by Nobel laureate Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei. During the week, the IBA Mediation Committee, under the confident leadership of Babak Barin of Montreal, will offer some robust and discriminating panels.
The second film on the use of facilitated dialogue to ease corporate/community tensions has been posted online. It may be viewed by clicking here. Read more »
