The ABA Section of Dispute Resolution is now accepting nominations for the 2010 Lawyer as Problem-Solver Award for both individuals and organizations. Information and the nomination form available at: http://www.abanet.org/dch/committee.cfm?com=DR020100. Michael Moffitt
At the Works in Progress conference last weekend, amidst much animated discussion on arbitration, Bob Mnookin took any takers with a bet that the Supreme Court will rule that interlocutory appeals from a class action certification are permitted. Dwight Golann argued that the Supreme Court will follow Hall St and rule that these interlocutory appeals are not permitted. … Continue reading Arbitration Betting
Professor Theodore J. St. Antoine will be speaking at Case Western Reserve University School of Law on “Mandatory Employment Arbration: Keeping it Fair and Keeping it Lawful” tomorrow, November 19, 2009, at 5-6pm (EST). The lecture will be broadcast live on webcast and be available for later viewing at: http://law.case.edu/lectures.
The International Association for Conflict Management has issued a call for submissions for its June 24-27, 2010 conference in Boston. See the call for submissions here: http://www.iacm-conflict.org/2010/call.pdf Hannah Riley Bowles of the Kennedy School at Harvard (who, by the way, is just wonderful) is part of the team organizing the event. Michael Moffitt
It has been 10 days since my grandmother’s funeral and I have been, if not enjoying this past week, definitely enjoying telling stories about her life and her influence on her grandchildren. She died at age 99, laying down to take a rest because she did not feel well—the Torah writes that those who die in their … Continue reading Lessons from my Grandmother
On November 5, I blogged (here) about the House Financial Services Committee’s Investor Protection Act and its provision empowering the SEC to enact regulations banning mandatory arbitration in customer-broker account agreements. In that post, I wrote: “I don’t quite understand the significance of this provision, as I understood that the SEC already has the authority under the … Continue reading Update: Investor Protection Act and Securities Arbitration
The ABA Section of Dispute Resolution is sponsoring a Mediation Video Contest on YouTube. Details are here. The Section seeks “creative, thoughtful, original three-minute videos that demonstrate the mediation process and benefits of mediation. The goal of the competition is to further public understanding of mediation and to promote the use of mediation as a … Continue reading Mediation Video Contest
Lawrence E. Dubé of BNA’s Labor Relations Week reported on a post-Pyett discussion at a recent ABA meeting: “The U.S. Supreme Court ruled earlier this year that a collective bargaining agreement “clearly and unmistakably” requiring employees to arbitrate claims under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act is enforceable, but employers and unions still are uncertain … Continue reading ABA Discussion of Impact of Pyett on Union-Management Relations
With the 20th anniversary of the tearing down of the Berlin Wall yesterday, I have been reflecting a lot on divides. I was lucky enough to spend a year working in Germany, from August 1988 to May 1989, in Cologne for the year between college and law school. And, although it killed me not to get … Continue reading Take Down This Wall
Oregon hosted a conference over the past weekend at which Larry Susskind (MIT, PON, and the Consensus Building Institute) was the keynote speaker. I scribbled a bunch of notes on which I’ll blog at some point. But first, I have to confess that I had no idea that Larry Susskind has a blog at http://theconsensusbuildingapproach.blogspot.com/. … Continue reading Larry Susskind in the blogosphere
