By Renee Jackson | January 6, 2025
While AI can make dispute resolution faster, cheaper, and more accessible, we must address key concerns about trust, confidentiality, and bias before fully embracing this technology for mediation.
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.
Daily Report Online | Commentary
By Eric J. Frisch | November 5, 2024
Litigators know there is nothing more disheartening than reaching an agreement at mediation—which may take hours or even days—only to have the resolution fall apart because of a disagreement over the final terms.
By Patrick R. Kingsley | October 31, 2024
Jurisdictions around the world are already finding success using AI to resolve legal disputes. With increasing pressures to maximize efficiencies and minimize costs, it's only a matter of time before the legal field steps into the future and leverages these technologies in the dispute resolution context.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Rich Lee | September 24, 2024
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.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Francine Friedman Griesing | August 13, 2024
Although the roles of arbitrators and mediators are different, neutrals in either capacity need to make fulsome disclosures so their impartiality can be adequately assessed.
By Rich Lee | August 8, 2024
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.
National Law Journal | Research
By Sulaiman Abdur-Rahman | July 24, 2024
"Chambers is a very private space," retired U.S. District Judge Shira A. Scheindlin said. "Each judge has five or six employees in their own private space, and there's no one supervising a judge. They are on their own. It's hard to take on such a person."
By Victoria Pfefferle-Gillot | July 9, 2024
Barley Snyder announced that attorney Brandon R. Griest has been named to the board of directors of the Pennsylvania Furniture Mission (PFM).
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Craig R. Tractenberg | June 14, 2024
The court found there was no evidence that Rita's used litigation before seeking arbitration so as to cause a waiver. The mere fact that Rita's waited until there was a dispute to arbitrate did not constitute a waiver.
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