Supreme Court Likes Arbitration; Hates Class-Actions
via The Consumerist: Supreme Court Rules That Companies Can Block Customers’ Class-Action Suits
Georgia Mediators Network on Facebook
If you’re on facebook and not following the Georgia Mediators Network, you’re really missing out. It’s become one of my best resources for mediation and ADR news. For example, a link was posted today about how mediation helped a family avoid losing their home through foreclosure. From my personal work observations, I don’t understand why [...]
US News and World Report’s Top 10 ADR Law Schools
10 ADR Law Schools, via Ombuds-Blog.
Warlock Charlie Sheen Headed for Arbitration
Charlie Sheen Suffers Setback in Legal Battle with Warner Bros.
Arbitration Ban Applied Retroactively
A Massachusetts court recently ruled that a provision in last year’s Dodd-Frank Wall Street legislation retroactively overrides the Sarbanes-Oxley Act‘s mandatory arbitration for SOX Act claims. Rather than try to sum up the decision in my own confusing words, I found a very clear and concise summary and explanation of the case at this link: [...]
This Just Seems Like a Terrible Idea
I found an article the other day about a new, online alternative to litigation. The site, JabberJury.com, allows parties to explain their dispute online and then allows a jury of their online peers to decide the outcome. Have the makers of this site ever spent any time on the internet? A jury of your peers [...]
Mediation Evaluation: Kate Reed
I’ve been sitting on this idea for a while now but have not written it yet because I thought this blog was starting to focus too much on mediation in entertainment. Unfortunately, the lack of any other interesting ADR-related articles recently has finally forced me to return to the fictional mediation world in the television [...]
Privilege Prevails
From the Mediate.com “Supreme Court of California Reinforces Mediation Privilege” The long-awaited Cassel decision has now come down this last week. The gist of the decision is that the mediation privilege trumps the right of a client to sue a lawyer for malpractice for events that occurred in mediation or in anticipation of mediation. The [...]
Congratulations are in Order
I’m not sure if this news has spread beyond the confines of Georgia State’s campus, but GSU Law’s mock arbitration team won the ABA’s Mock Arbitration this past weekend. Here is an excerpt from an e-mail sent out to students and faculty from GSU Law’s Dean Kaminshine: The national rounds of the competition consisted of [...]
Mediation in Media: Metropolis
There is a good amount of excitement in the mediation community over the new mediation-based television show, Fairly Legal. But did you know the hero in one of film history’s most influential films was a mediator? In the epic 1927 German silent film, Metropolis, the concept of the protagonist as a mediator is one of [...]
