ADR Prof Blog

Last week, I saw a great piece in a newsletter from business coach Deborah Grayson Riegel about how focusing closely can really help you make progress. 
U.S. Olympic bobsled pilot Steven Holcomb had been piloting his four-man sled virtually blind due to an eye disease when he decided to have surgery to restore his vision. While [...]

The ADR in Law Schools Committee of the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution seeks several experienced mediators to mediate the National Final Rounds of the ABA Representation in Mediation Competition.  In the competition, students play the role of lawyer and client in a mediation of a simulated case and are judged on their prolem-solving skills.  The competition [...]

Sean Nolon from Vermont Law School would like to hear how your law school teaches dispute resolution.  Several of you have received this, but we want to make sure we catch as many people as possible.  This data collection project is a component of what Sean presented at this fall’s Works-in-Progress Conference. 
Dear colleagues (with apologies for cross-postings),
I would [...]

For many New Yorkers who susbscribe to Cablevision for their TV service, the threatened inability to watch the Academy Awards tonight has been the source of much anxiety this week.   Just a few hours before the Awards show is set to air, Cablevision answered calls that it submit to binding arbitration to resolve its dispute with [...]

On April 20, 2010, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the New York County Lawyers Association are co-sponsoring a symposium in New York entitled:  Problem Solving Courts Symposium:  The Pros and Cons of Treatment in the Criminal Justice System.  In the symposium “interested groups will debate the various functions of problem-solving courts, including [...]