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Moritz College of Law Students win CPR Awards

January 24th, 2012 by Sarah Cole · No Comments

I would be remiss in my duties as director of the Moritz College of Law if I did not offer my congratulations to the student winners of the annual CPR academic awards — both of whom are members of the Moritz College of Law class of 2011. From our press release: Michael Diamond ’11 wrote [...]

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Southwest Jr. Clinicians Conference – March 16, 2012 at Arizona State

January 23rd, 2012 by Art Hinshaw · No Comments

I know this is an ADR board, but ADR programs have clinics too.  If you know any clinicians (or non-clinicians) who might be interested our upcoming program, please forward the announcement for the Southwest Jr. Clinicians Conference below. Have you been a clinician for less than ten years? If so come and join us at [...]

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Will the CFPB Take Action on Mandatory Arbitration?

January 23rd, 2012 by Paul Kirgis · No Comments

The consensus had been the Consumer Financial Products Board, finally (but perhaps temporarily) able to act since the recess appointment of Richard Cordray as Director, would have too much on its plate to move quickly on its Congressional mandate to study consumer arbitration in financial services agreements. But Cordray was quoted in a Washington Post [...]

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Negotiation and Ethics – in the Palm of Your Hand?

January 23rd, 2012 by Art Hinshaw · 1 Comment

Friend of Indisputably, Kristen Blankley, provides this guest post on an two new cell phone apps to keep important information at your fingertips. Who says that the answers to complicated questions arising from negotiation strategy and legal ethics cannot be answered at the tip of your fingers?  Thanks to two recently developed apps, they can.  The first [...]

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New Dispute Resolution Center for Complex Financial Transactions Opens in The Hague

January 20th, 2012 by Jill Gross · No Comments

From the Global Arbitration Review (1/16/12): “The world’s first specialist centre to resolve disputes arising from complex financial transactions has opened in The Hague. PRIME Finance – the Panel for Recognised International Market Experts – was declared open for business today by the Dutch minister of finance, Jan Kees de Jager. It will draw on [...]

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