AALS ADR Section Breakfast & Session (Friday 1/7) Update

The AALS ADR section breakfast and session will be on Friday January 7th. They have been relocated from the Hilton.  Unfortunately, they are now in different hotels. The ADR section breakfast will be in Davidson, Fourth floor level, Parc 55 Wyndham from 7:00 am – 8:30 am.  The ADR section session and section meeting will be … Continue reading AALS ADR Section Breakfast & Session (Friday 1/7) Update

Will Moffitt Be Feted Like This?

There have been plenty of kudos to Michael Moffitt for his ascension to the rarefied air of the deanship at the University of Oregon School of Law, and rightly so.  However, I doubt they’ll have an induction ceremony as lovely as this. http://jennybishopphotography.wordpress.com/2010/12/14/sarah-art-married-phoenix-wedding-photographer/

Pepperdine to Launch Investor Advocacy Clinic

Kudos to Pepperdine for obtaining a grant from FINRA’s Investor Education Foundation to start a clinic in which students represent investors with small claims in securities mediations and arbitrations. This is the first such clinic in the Southern California area, where many retirees have been desperate for free legal services in this specialized area. See … Continue reading Pepperdine to Launch Investor Advocacy Clinic

Sperling on the Role of Demand Letters in Negotiations

Carrie Sperling (Arizona State) has posted on SSRN an article (to be published at 60 Catholic U. L. Rev. 1 (2010)), on the role of lawyers’ demand letters in negotiations, arguing that scholars have not integrated negotiation theory and legal writing practice when it comes to pre-negotiation demand letters. Here is the abstract: Lawyers frequently … Continue reading Sperling on the Role of Demand Letters in Negotiations

SDNY on arbitration – “the wonderous alternative to the rule of reason”

Cross-posted from Securities Law Prof Blog (authored by Prof. Barbara Black, Dec. 3, 2010): Judge Jed Rakoff (S.D.N.Y.) denied Goldman Sach’s motion to vacate a $20.580 million arbitration award obtained by the Official Unsecured Creditors’ Committee of Bayou Group on Nov. 8, 2010 and promised that a written opinion would follow.  The opinion was filed on Nov. … Continue reading SDNY on arbitration – “the wonderous alternative to the rule of reason”

Congratulations to our very own Michael Moffitt – new Dean at Oregon Law

Oregon Law announced today that it has appointed Michael Moffitt, the law school’s associate dean for academic affairs, associate director for the Appropriate Dispute Resolution Center, and Orlando J. and Marian H. Hollis Professor of Law, to the post of Dean of the law school, effective July 2011. We here at Indisputably are very proud … Continue reading Congratulations to our very own Michael Moffitt – new Dean at Oregon Law