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The Legal Intelligencer

Resolving Litigation: Equal Empathy for Tenants, Landlords Highlight 'Radical Neutral Advocacy'

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.
9 minute read

International Edition

Slaughter and May, Nigerian Firms Guide BAT in $110M Settlement to Stop Criminal Probe

Nigeria's consumer protection agency will now close all investigations and withdraw pending criminal charges against the company.
2 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

When Can Nonsignatories Arbitrate? Recent Cases Offer Guidance

Commercial arbitration is increasing in frequency and value. Recent cases have addressed two emerging issues. The first is whether a nonsignatory to an arbitration clause can compel or avoid arbitration. The second, more novel issue, is whether a nonsignatory can compel another nonsignatory to arbitration.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

The Strategic Advantage of Using Joint Valuation Experts in Legal Disputes

Employ a jointly retained valuation expert. This underused approach can pivotally shift disputes, especially where emotional entanglement clouds judgment, as in divorce or business ownership conflicts.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

One Thing You Need To Know About the Proposed Revisions to the English Arbitration Act

The statute that governs arbitrations seated in England is in the process of being amended, with the U.K. government having a new Arbitration Bill into parliament in November 2023. In this article, John Fellas discusses one amendment, of which it is important that practitioners in other countries are aware.
12 minute read

International Edition

Close, But No Cigar: Key Barriers to Judgment and Award Enforcement

Increasingly we are seeing an increase in recovery activity against judgment debtors that are choosing not to pay, as opposed to those who simply don't have the money, says Burford Capital's London head.
6 minute read

International Edition

Colombia Attempts to Toss Case Over $20 Billion in Sunken Treasure

Arbitrators must decide whether treasure hunters have rights to a potential bounty of gold, silver and gems from a Spanish galleon that sank off the coast of Cartagena more than three centuries ago.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

People in the News—Dec. 14, 2023—McNees

McNees Wallace & Nurick announced that energy attorney Charis Mincavage is the firm's newest member, effective Jan. 1, 2024.
3 minute read

Daily Report Online

Arbitration and Mediation: Why I Do Both

The way I see it, mediation and arbitration share a symbiotic relationship of sorts. There are tasks and functions that you perform as an arbitrator that, in my opinion, make you a better mediator and vice versa.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

ADR: A View from the Other Side of the Bench

In this article, retired Supreme Court, Suffolk County justice Paul J. Baisley Jr. reflects on his time as an arbitrator and discusses his expectations and methods associated with the job.
8 minute read

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