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Law Firms
New York, NY, December 15, 2011 – The International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution (CPR Institute), a nonprofit alliance of ...
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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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A Texas state appellate court vacated a $22 million arbitration award against six appellants--including law firms in San Antonio and Plano, Texas, as well as individual attorney defendants--after finding that the arbitrator and the appellee’s counsel were more than just mere acquaintances.
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This article discusses the desirability of arbitrators’ to preserve the flexibility that characterizes international arbitration, but a minimum set of widely accepted guidelines is equally desirable, in order to preserve the predictability and attractiveness of arbitration.
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This article, a CPR Writing Contest Winner, is about enforcing arbitration awards is using Saipem S.p.A. v. The People’s Republic of Bangladesh (“ Saipem v. Bangladesh”) as an example of the creation of a new tier of protection when foreign investors are affected by the actions of a host country’s judiciary system.
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“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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Melanie Lewis outlined many of the considerations pertinent to implementing an employment dispute management program, in CPR's 2004 Resource Book for Managing Employment Disputes.
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This article explores some of the roadblocks that firms unwittingly embrace that can hamper the advancement of their female litigators.
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In episode 91 of CPR's International Dispute Negotiation podcast, hosted by Mike McIlwrath, Jay Brudz, senior counsel overseeing legal technology at General Electric Co, discusses the state of the art in dispute management from a corporate law department perspective.
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In the second of a two-part discussion, U.K. author Richard Susskind visits International Dispute Negotiation host Michael McIlwrath to discuss managing law firms and corporate law departments, technology, and the billable hour.
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