Rich Lee

September 24, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

My guest for this month is Lateef Ledbetter, a senior counsel at Wells Fargo based in Minneapolis. He was exposed to the law early, from his mother's work for state child protection agencies, and traveled far and wide before landing his current position.

By Rich Lee

9 minute read

August 08, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

My guest this month, Gene Ryu of K&L Gates, started his career advising businesses on labor and employment issues long before he went to law school—or college, high school or middle school. I'll let him explain it below, but his background set him up perfectly to represent an employer with empathy for their employee.

By Rich Lee

7 minute read

May 08, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

For this month's feature, I had the pleasure of speaking with Robyn Weinstein, who has dedicated her career to the advancement and craft of conflict resolution.

By Rich Lee

10 minute read

March 29, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

Our conversation highlighted three very different angles—how the mindsets of litigators and parties affect a matter, how insurance companies use ADR, and how a new effort to build gender diversity is faring. We also discussed the challenges facing arbitration and the risks they bring to this critical service.

By Rich Lee

8 minute read

February 23, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

Seamus Duffy explained how arbitration law has evolved from before the Concepcion decision to the world of mass arbitrations today.

By Rich Lee

10 minute read

January 02, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

Mediation starts the moment everybody signs the confidentiality agreement and can go on for months. If there's no settlement, it's just suspended. There's no failure because mediation can always start again. I stress that with parties and lawyers. We can always come back.

By Rich Lee

9 minute read

August 07, 2023 | New York Law Journal

Lawyers, litigants, witnesses and court officials slogging through depositions and motions in a case that an appeals court may eventually determine should always have been before an arbitrator—as directed by a contract between the parties—does sound like a huge waste of everyone's time and money.

By Rich Lee and Sandra L. Musumeci

6 minute read

February 03, 2023 | New York Law Journal

While a tool to help people do their jobs faster and better, technology—if unchecked—can lead its users or the public into problems, thus challenging the government to implement solutions without squelching innovation.

By Rich Lee, Kari M. Rollins and Lorena Cornelio

7 minute read