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Best Practices
New York’s top court refused to overturn an arbitration award in an opinion this morning, and in the process, specified its approach in a key pr...
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It's here: the annual Mediation Settlement Day in New York state.
This annual commemoration, now a decade old, started as a court system effo...
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Sen. Al Franken, D., Minn., just wrapped up about two hours of testimony on the fairness of business’s use of mandatory arbitration.
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Posted in: Advocacy in ADR, Arbitration, Arbitrators, Class Actions, Legislation, Mass Claims, Provider Organizations, Best Practices, Clause Drafting, Contracts, Multi-party, ADR Policy, ADR Procedures
“As so very often, the key lies in a proper balance: est modus in rebus. To ensure that international arbitration continues to be an effective method of resolving commercial disputes, all players must share responsibility in maintaining that balance.” 1
Anne Marie Whitesell
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CPR has presented organization’s fourth annual “Law Firm Award for Excellence in Alternative Dispute Resolution” to two firms this year.
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Ireland’s Law Reform Commission has released an expansive 231-page report that backs a massive upgrade of mediation, conciliation, and ADR in the country, linked but separate from efforts to comply with the EU Directive on mediation, due to be implemented in 2011's first half.
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The CPR Protocol addresses concerns often expressed by users of arbitration, that there is, particularly in disputes involving parties of different nations, a lack of predictability in the ways in which the arbitration proceedings are conducted and that arbitration is becoming increasingly more complex, costly and time-consuming. The Protocol addresses these concerns by providing guidance in the form of recommendations as to practices that arbitrators may follow in administering proceedings before them, including proceedings conducted under the CPR Rules or under other ad hoc or institutional rules. The practices recommended deal with ways in which reasonable limitations may be placed on disclosure and efficiencies gained in the presentation of witness testimony in arbitration hearings.
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Kathy Bryan, President & CEO of CPR searched among CPR's scholars and practitioners to create an exploratory group to engage in a wide-ranging study of the entire field of prevention as practiced in the United States and around the world.
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