The recent confluence of my Conflict Transformation work with the New York Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends (Quakers) and the richly rewarding session offered by David Hoffman at the April 2014 Meeting of the ABA Dispute Resolution Section have made me increasingly aware of the moral component of...
Tag Archives: Negotiation
On Wednesday October 22, 12:50 - 2:15 pm, New York Law School's ADR Program is offering a reprise of a very successful panel from last April's ABA Business Law Section meeting in Los Angeles: "Calling All Deal Lawyers: Why Transactional Attorneys Should Get Involved in Dispute Resolution." The program features James Freund, Mediator...
Christian Fabian of Mayer Brown made a valuable contribution to a discussion at the ABA Business Law Section last month on collaborative legal practices in merger, dissolution and other business contexts. Click here for a posting on that excellent panel. He has recently written an excellent article titled "Breaking Up is...
The ABA Business Law Section has turned its back on the August Annual Meeting of the Association and is now convening its own Annual Meeting in Chicago a month later. It is a resounding success by any measure, but certainly from the perspective of the Business Law Section: Over 1,500...
Andrew Olejnik of Jenner & Block and Olivier André of the CPR Institute have co-authored an article that appears in Bankruptcy Law Reporter on the growing use of ADR tools in bankruptcy. Dating the trend from a 2009 conference convened by the American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review, the authors conclude...
This is the first of a series of posts on panels presented at the 16th ABA Dispute Resolution Section Annual Meeting, in Miami, Florida, April 2-5, 2014. John Lande, Kurt Dettman, Phil Armstrong and Deborah Masucci gave a panel on early planned dispute resolution. The goal of the integrated approach is...
THE EXERCISE: Imagine a market with fully successful commercial mediation. (Its success is measured by the breadth of take-up by commercial disputants and the infrequency of litigated cases involving business disputes.) What are its attributes? What conditions gave rise to this broadly-accepted use of mediation as a day-to-day method of...