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Monday, August 23, 2010 BP Opens Independent Claims Facility to Handle Gulf Coast Disaster Payouts By Bleemer @ 10:53 AM on Monday, August 23, 2010 :: 134 Views :: 0 Comments :: Blogs, Russ Bleemer The independent claims facility set up with BP money to pay victims of the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster officially launched this morning. Read More..

Monday, April 26, 2010 UPDATED: Transcript of Arbitration Unconscionability at the Court Today By Bleemer @ 10:10 AM on Monday, April 26, 2010 :: 1659 Views :: 0 Comments :: Blogs, Russ Bleemer Today's the day the U.S. Supreme Court tackles unconscionability in arbitration.   Read More..

Tuesday, February 16, 2010 Next Arb Case Arg Date Set at U.S. Supreme Court By Bleemer @ 5:39 PM on Tuesday, February 16, 2010 :: 2248 Views :: 0 Comments :: Blogs, Russ Bleemer The U.S. Supreme Court today set the date for its next arbitration argument, in the Rent-a-Center West v. Jackson, 09-497.  Read More..

Thursday, December 03, 2009 JAMS Seeks Comments for New ''Mediator-in-Reserve' in International Arbitration Matters By Bleemer @ 12:10 PM on Thursday, December 03, 2009 :: 2076 Views :: 1 Comments Just before Thanksgiving, Irvine, Calif.-based ADR provider JAMS, released a proposed policy for  the appointment of a  “Mediator-in-Reserve”  in international arbitrations. A public comment period ends on Jan. 1.  Click through for details Read More..

Wednesday, November 25, 2009 Mediation Program Keeping Connecticut Debtors in their Homes Longer By Bleemer @ 2:52 PM on Wednesday, November 25, 2009 :: 1267 Views :: 0 Comments :: Blogs Connecticut's tough residential mortgage foreclosure situation gets some good news from a new mandatory mediation program Read More..

Thursday, November 19, 2009 New Searle Study: Consumer Debt Arbitration is Fair By Bleemer @ 3:17 PM on Thursday, November 19, 2009 :: 975 Views :: 2 Comments A new study comparing arbitration and court results in consumer debt collection cases finds debtors are getting a fair shake in ADR, and that creditors do better in court than they do in arbitration. Read More..

Friday, November 13, 2009 Glenn Beck Loses WIPO Case, But Gets to Close Parody Site Anyway By Bleemer @ 11:36 AM on Friday, November 13, 2009 :: 870 Views :: 3 Comments :: Blogs Fox News hot property Glenn Beck didn’t rape and murder a young girl in 1990.  But last last month he lost an administrative proceeding with the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Arbitration and Mediation Center in which he argued that the domain name GlennBeckRapedAndMurderedAYoungGirlin1990.com violated his trademark and constitutes defamation. Read More..

Monday, February 23, 2009 CPR's Latest Webcast Now Available On Demand By @ 2:09 PM on Monday, February 23, 2009 :: 2484 Views :: 0 Comments University of Windsor (Ontario) Prof. Julie Macfarlane's Feb. 9 one-hour lunchtime CLE webcast on new practice challenges is now available on demand..... Read More..

Tuesday, January 13, 2009 Should Mediators Vouch for a Settlement's Fairness? By @ 1:07 PM on Tuesday, January 13, 2009 :: 2360 Views :: 0 Comments :: Blogs, Russ Bleemer Should mediators publically declare a settlement to be fair? It’s an interesting question vetted in a column in today’s Daily Journal, Los Angeles’s legal newspaper, by Jeff Kichaven and Jay McCauley, mediators at Professional Mediation & Arbitration, a new Los Angeles-based mediation firm.  The veteran practitioners are dead against neutrals’ fairness opinions According to the article authors, it has become “apparently customary” for courts to ask mediators whether a class action is fair.  The authors say that mediators are agreeing to provide the opinion letters as a marketplace reality–that is, do it or risk not getting hired later. The practice is “senseless,” say Kichaven and McCauley.  “Fairness declarations are irrelevant.  Worse, they place us all on the road to corruption.  Lawyers should never request them, mediators should never provide them, and most importantly, courts should never invite them and should always strike them from consideration.” The article is available with subscription at the Daily Journal’s webpage, here.

Friday, December 12, 2008 Lawyers Weekly looks at Arbitration Malaise By @ 5:33 PM on Friday, December 12, 2008 :: 1998 Views :: 0 Comments The Canadian periodical Lawyers Weekly last week took a look at issues in arbitration, and in the article by Randy Pepper, a Toronto barrister, used an article authored by the CPR Institute's president, and discussion at CPR Institute meeting from earlier this year, to warn against the danger of "American malaise" infecting Canadian arbitration. Read More..

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