By Kelly K. James | January 30, 2025
What’s happening in Florida construction law now? What trends should Florida construction attorneys be aware of? And how can they better serve the clients they represent? Here’s a closer look at issues Florida construction lawyers should keep in mind in 2025 and beyond.
By Douglas J. Witten | January 29, 2025
As ChatGPT and other large language models, such as Gemini, Claude and even legal-specific platforms have emerged, AI’s potential to shape ADR processes is eminently clearer.
By Francine Friedman Griesing | January 27, 2025
My recent experience as a party, advocate and neutral in arbitration and mediation evokes the first line of a Charles Dickens novel about challenging times in history when the French experienced both opportunity and tyranny. The situation with alternate dispute resolution is not that extreme, but there are lessons to be learned from both positive and negative stakeholder experiences.
By Myrna Barakat Friedman and Mehdi Ansari | January 27, 2025
Arbitration parties, arbitrators and administering institutions can all benefit from AI so long as its risks and limitations are fully understood and appropriately addressed.
By Alex D'Elia | January 24, 2025
Spain’s capital is positioning itself as a key player in the global arbitration landscape, attracting increasing attention from international dispute resolution professionals.
By Amanda Bronstad | January 14, 2025
Lawyers for women and children who were videotaped by a voyeur while on a cruise ship have moved to certify a class against Royal Caribbean, citing the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act.
By ALM Staff | January 14, 2025
In The Legal's Alternative Dispute Resolution special section, read about browsewrap arbitration agreements, tips to break a mediation deadlock and some mistakes parties make at mediation.
By Matthew A. Green and Matthew E. Selmasska | January 14, 2025
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court is set to take up the enforceability of Uber’s “browsewrap” arbitration agreements. With browsewrap agreements, the actual text of an arbitration clause is not initially displayed and requires the user to take further action by clicking a link to view the actual terms. Given the format of these agreements, according to Uber, a user’s continued use of the website manifests the user’s consent to all terms and conditions even if the user hasn’t actually viewed the terms.
By Andrew Horowitz | January 14, 2025
Parties don’t simply say what their bottom lines are at the outset, rather the mediator’s job is to gradually convince the parties to make themselves vulnerable by exposing (and possibly moving) their bottom lines.
By Emil Giordano | January 14, 2025
Two parties reaching an impasse is not at all uncommon in mediation and can occur at any point in the process. Even when the situation seems hopeless, there are many strategies available to end an impasse. The key is to identify the source of the deadlock and apply the right strategy.
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