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Advocacy in ADR
Multi-dimensional mediation goes beyond the usual concept of multiparty mediation, although it can and often does include more than one party. International mediator Paul E. Mason gives us details on the logistics of these big matters.
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Disputes at a television network attract a great deal of attention, and need a great deal of conflict management skills. Not to mention cutting-edge tools. Two top lawyers at NBC Universal Inc. talk discovery, arbitration, mediation, and the nature of business disputes in the first of two parts.
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A California appeals court has denied a Tarzana, Calif.-based law firm’s request to use state mediation confidentiality laws to bar the introduction of conversations about a mediation as evidence in a client’s malpractice suit against the firm.
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A quick preview of a soon-to-be-posted International Dispute Negotiation podcast on entertainment law ADR with top attorneys from NBC Universal.
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IDN 80 guest Stefano Azzali explains the ADR innovations used by the Milan Chamber of Commerce’s Court of National and International Arbitration. The Italy-based regional ADR provider is a lot more versatile than its name suggests. Azzali, who is the chamber court’s secretary general, describes how mediation has become the the arbitration court’s biggest growth area.
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Details from a complaint filed by plaintiffs' law firm Milberg LLP in a class action suit National Arbitration Forum and related companies, alleging consumer fraud. The suit charges that NAF offered its arbitration processes for credit collection purposes. The complaint alleges that the defendants worked together and created separate entities to avoid transparency into the operation.
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Understand the brain, make better choices in ADR. In Part 2 of his discussion with the principals behind the nonprofit Master Mediation Institute, Robert A. Creo and Monique McKay, International Dispute Negotiation host Michael McIlwrath looks at the science of decision making--and “the science behind mediators’ sense.” As Mike noted in Part I last week, this subject "could be a game changer.”
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This week’s podcast focuses on recent initiatives exploring the science of decision making and conflict resolution.. Pittsburgh attorney-neutral and CPR website Master Mediator columnist Robert A. Creo returns to IDN to discuss the Master Mediator Institute, which he co-founded in 2008. The Institute focuses on the art and science of mediation, negotiation and facilitated decision making. Also joining IDN host Michael McIlwrath is MMI Director and co-founder Monique McKay, who points out that MMI is creating a community of mediators, counsel, executives and scientists to help people integrate negotiating decisions—that is, combine the rational basis of bargaining strategies and choices with the pull of the underlying emotional component, individual values and other subjective factors which are often unacknowledged or even ignored in business settings. First of two parts.
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Chevron, the second-largest U.S. oil company, filed a petition with the Permanent Court of Arbitration in Hague, Netherlands, on Wednesday in an effort to force Ecuador to pay part of the estimated $27 billion in environmental damages in the Amazon rainforest, allegedly caused by Chevron operations’ activities.
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Public Citizen, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit, yesterday released a "Forced Arbitration: Unfair and Everywhere,” advocating the ban of arbitration clauses in consumer contracts. The Sept. 14, 2009, report arrives as House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law holds a hearing this afternoon titled “Mandatory Binding Arbitration - Is it Fair and Voluntary?”
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