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Friday, December 26, 2008 Holiday Podcast: Cro-Mags, Neanderthals, and Dispute Resolution (Dec. 26). By russ @ 12:48 PM on Friday, December 26, 2008 :: 94 Views :: 0 Comments :: Archives, Commentary, Systems Design Our needs to develop fairness and justice runs deep.  How deep?  About 40,000 human developmental years’ deep.  In this week’s International Dispute Negotiation podcast, Ian Tattersall, curator in the Department of Anthropology of New York’s American Museum of Natural History, and an expert in interpreting human paleontology to the public, discusses how Cro-Magnon creativity and culture produced the beginnings of modern  dispute resolution.   Tattersall tells IDN host Mike McIlwrath that sometime within the past 100,000 years, humans developed the capacity for symbolic reasoning--an ability to perceive the world in a whole new way that made us not just slightly different from other "hominids," but very different.    The 55th episiode of IDN, "Neanderthal v. Cro-Magnon Dispute Resolution: Ian Tattersall on Becoming Human," premieres today here, and is available in the iTunes store and by RSS feed.  All access is free.

Friday, December 26, 2008 IDN 55 - Neanderthal v. Cro-Magnon Dispute Resolution: Ian Tattersall on Becoming Human By russ @ 12:22 PM on Friday, December 26, 2008 :: 78 Views :: 1 Comments :: PodCasts Our need to develop fairness and justice runs deep. How deep? About 40,000 human developmental years’ deep. In this week’s podcast, Ian Tattersall, curator in the Department of Anthropology at New York’s American Museum of Natural History, and an expert in interpreting human paleontology to the public, discusses how Cro-Magnon creativity and culture produced the beginnings of modern dispute resolution. Read More..

Friday, December 19, 2008 IDN 54 - Arbitrating Dangerously: The AAA's Eric Tuchman on Tribunal Immunity By russ @ 12:44 PM on Friday, December 19, 2008 :: 91 Views :: 0 Comments :: PodCasts Arbitrators are sued for anything and everything, according to first-time International Dispute Negotiation guest Eric P. Tuchmann, the American Arbitration Association's general counsel in New York.  Join Tuchmann and IDN host Mike McIlwrath for a discussion on liability claims against arbitration tribunals and providers.  The analysis begins with a New Jersey parking lot brawl between an arbitration attorney-advocate, and an opposing party--a case that had the AAA defending its actions in a state appellate court. Read More..

Tuesday, December 16, 2008 NLJ 12/15/08 - Arbitration's E-Discovery Conundrum By Molly @ 4:25 PM on Tuesday, December 16, 2008 :: 192 Views :: 0 Comments :: CPR in the News, Arbitration, Commentary, Discovery, Law Firms, Corporate Counsel, e-Discovery By Thomas Aldrich It's no secret that the recent expansion of document discovery in federal civil litigation has driven many corporations and their lawyers to eschew court battles for alternative dispute resolution.  Today, however, the experience of massive, uncontrolled document discovery, particularly with regard to electronic documents, has eviscerated most of the benefits of arbitration. Understanding the problem requires a look at the development of electronic discovery rules and what some arbitral institutions are doing to address the situation. This article will describe briefly how we got here. Read More..

Monday, December 15, 2008 This Week's Podcast: What Does It Take to Be an Effective Mediator? (Dec. 15.) By russ @ 1:32 PM on Monday, December 15, 2008 :: 174 Views :: 0 Comments :: Archives, Advocacy in ADR, Mediation, Mediators, Negotiation Ben’s Back! One of the nation’s top law firm ADR practitioners, Bennett G. Picker, of Philadelphia's Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, returned this week to International Dispute Negotiation, the CPR Institute's weekly podcast hosted by Mike McIlwrath, senior counsel of GE Oil & Gas in Florence, Italy. Ben's ADR leadership was at the core of Stradley Ronon's recognition as the inaugural 2008 recipient of the CPR Law Firm Award for Excellence in ADR. Ben discusses what it takes to be an effective mediator. This week's podcast is relevant to managing international disputes, explains Mike McIlwrath, because it is the same information parties need for choosing an effective mediator in the course of their dispute management. Find out the three things you need to know about what makes a great mediator in this week’s IDN. Join us again this Friday, here, for a new podcast.

Friday, December 12, 2008 IDN 53 - So You Want to Be an Effective Mediator? Ben Picker Returns By russ @ 11:56 AM on Friday, December 12, 2008 :: 131 Views :: 0 Comments :: PodCasts Ben’s Back!  One of the nation’s top law firm ADR practitioners, Bennett G. Picker, of Philadelphia's Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, returns to talk about what it takes to be an effective mediator.  The discussion is relevant to managing international disputes, explains host Mike McIlwrath, because it is the same information parties need for choosing a great mediator in the course of their dispute management.  Find out the three things you need to know about what makes a great mediator in this week’s IDN. Read More..

Friday, December 05, 2008 The IDN Podcast Returns, Focusing on a Hybrid Resolution Technique (Dec. 5) By russ @ 1:19 PM on Friday, December 05, 2008 :: 208 Views :: 0 Comments :: Archives, Advocacy in ADR, Arbitration, Mediation, Mediators, Systems Design Savvy hybrid process can lead to faster, more effective commercial dispute resolution.  Mercedes Tarrazon, a veteran arbitrator and mediator in Barcelona, discusses her techniques when sitting as an arbitrator that incorporate mediiaton skills, and produce settlement.  CPR's International Dispute Negotiation podcast returns today after a Thanksgiving break, with host Mike McIlwrath, of GE Infrastructure - Oil & Gas in Florence, Italy, interviewing Tarrazon about her sophisticated and successful process design practices. Access this week's podcast, and the archives, here.

Friday, December 05, 2008 IDN 52 - Becoming Your Own 'Amiable Compositeur': Arb-Med with Mercedes Tarrazon By russ @ 1:03 PM on Friday, December 05, 2008 :: 149 Views :: 0 Comments :: PodCasts Mercedes Tarrazon, a veteran arbitrator and mediator in Barcelona, provides a platform for making parties and their attorneys more comfortable with mediation, arbitration, and other hybrid processes that keep people and companies out of litigation. Host Mike McIlwrath interviews Tarrazon about her effective technique for helping parties obtain satisfactory outcomes from their arbitrations--even well before the award stage. Tarrazon explains a practice that she has adapted in a variety of commercial conflict resolution settings around the world. Read More..

Monday, December 01, 2008 Nat'l Law Journal-11/24/08: The ‘New Lawyer’ and the Triumph of the Soft Skills By Molly @ 4:51 PM on Monday, December 01, 2008 :: 294 Views :: 0 Comments :: CPR in the News, Commentary, Corporate Law Dept, Law Firms, Negotiation, Corporate Counsel Business clients and their in-house  counsel really want their outside law firms to be skilled at the alternatives to the adversarial and costly game of leverage that is commonplace in American courtrooms. Read More..

Monday, December 01, 2008 It’s Arbitration Day at the U.S. Supreme Court. Again. (Dec. 1) By russ @ 3:27 PM on Monday, December 01, 2008 :: 216 Views :: 0 Comments :: Archives, Advocacy in ADR, Arbitration, Awards, Employment The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments today in the second arbitration case of the term,  14 Penn Plaza LLC, et al. v. Pyett, No. 07-581. The transcript is now available and linked on the jump. Read More..

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