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By Amanda Bronstad | December 27, 2024
At a Dec. 19 hearing, U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes, in the District of Columbia, criticized lawyers for their escalating mass arbitration fight. “I don’t think lawyers should start going after each other,” she wrote. “Now, all of this seems like a colossal waste of time, energy, and money.”
By Leah J. Wilson | December 26, 2024
A good mediator is a combination of hard work, talent and good training. It’s important not to overlook the education component. The greatest trial lawyer in the world is worthless if she doesn’t know the rules of evidence. Mediators are no different.
By Edward T. Kang | December 20, 2024
While vigorous efforts have been made to push the courts to interpret the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) with an increasingly broad preemptive scope, effectively overriding state laws designed to regulate arbitration, recent decisions underscore that courts are not willing to uphold arbitration agreements when fairness and justice might be compromised. Legitimate concerns surrounding arbitration are prompting more judicial scrutiny—a trend worth examining.
By Lisa Willis | December 17, 2024
Behind the scenes of the Trump-ABC News settlement: Attorneys and mediators talk about strategies and key moments in the mediation that took all by surprise.
By Joe Murphey | December 17, 2024
A reputation for unprofessional conduct impairs an attorney’s ability to negotiate at mediation. Conversely, attorneys who are respected as being professional in their dealings always gets the benefit of the doubt, and their clients the better end of the bargain.
By Patrick Jones | December 13, 2024
When a proposal is made by the mediator, reactive devaluation is significantly reduced. Thus, a party might agree to a proposal made by the mediator, even though it would not have agreed to that proposal if it had come from the opposing party.
By Leslie Berkoff | December 13, 2024
Recently, most, if not all, major arbitral institutions have implemented rules requiring that arbitrators disclose any facts that may affect their impartiality so that both the parties and the arbitral institution can make an upfront determination on a potential conflict.
By Jim Shea | December 12, 2024
Mediation, which can be court-ordered or voluntary, often provides the parties the most efficient and satisfactory method to resolve their hurricane-related property damage claims. Here is a closer look at some of the issues that are frequently encountered when mediating first-party property insurance claims.
By Michael Russell | December 10, 2024
I’ve said that a good mediator is a combination of hard work, talent, and good training. It’s important not to overlook the education component. The greatest trial lawyer in the world is worthless if she doesn’t know the rules of evidence. Mediators are no different.
By Mason Lawlor | December 9, 2024
The Eighth Circuit noted several problems with the defendants' reliance on a pop-up window during contract signing, including a lack of information on where an agreement's arbitration clause may be, how many clicks were needed to find it, and whether their website changed.
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