Table of Contents

• ADR Practice Management
  • Making Arbitration Work: A Corporate User's View of the Future
  • By Michelle M. Leetham
• CPR News
  • March/April Meetings & Events
  • Noah J. Hanft Appointed New President & CEO of CPR International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution
  • Featured Panels: CPR's Employment & Franchise Neutrals ‐ By Yulia V. Gryaznova
• Trust & Estates ADR
  • Mediating Probate Cases to Settlement
  • By Michael S. Orfinger
• Corporate ADR
  • Interview ‐ Putting CPR's 21st Century Corporate ADR Pledge into Practice: GCs Share Insights and Practical Tips
• ADR Briefs
  • EU Releases In‐Depth Study on the Impact of the 2008 Mediation Directive ‐ By Alexandra Douglas
  • International Chamber of Commerce Adopts New Mediation Rules ‐ By Alexandra Douglas
• The Master Mediator
  • Looking My Way: Honestly … Honestly? Honestly!!!
  • By Robert A. Creo

     

CPR meeting survey finds mediation is top ADR choice

Details on a CPR member's survey that found mediation to be the top ADR process choice. Also, CPR's National Task Force on Diversity in ADR releases its first product, an audit tool that companies can use to gauges law firms' ability to deploy ADR processes     

Nomination time: CPR's 2008 law firm award

The competition opens for CPR's second Law Firm Award for Excellence in ADR, with entries due this month. Also, details on next month's meeting in Houston; the CPR National Task Force on Diversity in ADR; the keynoter for January's 30th Anniversary CPR Annual Meeting, and much more.     

Proceeding to yes: A federal judge looks at ADR's future

A CPR News special: Two recent speeches discussing Alternatives' publisher's impact on ADR, and what the future may look like. First, the remarks of 2006 CPR Corporate Leadership Award dinner keynoter Joseph A. Greenaway Jr., a Newark, N.J., U.S. District Court Judge, focus on where ADR works and where its promise lies. CPR Senior Vice President F. Peter Phillips, in addressing the First African ADR Congress in Nigeria in November, provides a history of commercial conflict resolution.     

Fulfilling your obligations on mediation capacity

The mediation is going smoothly … the attorneys are cooperating … but the mediator is starting to get the feeling that the plaintiff is not following the proceedings. The plaintiff looks confused, and the few comments that he has made indicate that he doesn't understand the mediator's role … although the plaintiff's attorney is fully engaged in the mediation, he is not being particularly responsive to his client.     

How conflict resolution emerged within the commercial sector

A CPR News special: Two recent speeches discussing Alternatives' publisher's impact on ADR, and what the future may look like. First, the remarks of 2006 CPR Corporate Leadership Award dinner keynoter Joseph A. Greenaway Jr., a Newark, N.J., U.S. District Court Judge, focus on where ADR works and where its promise lies. CPR Senior Vice President F. Peter Phillips, in addressing the First African ADR Congress in Nigeria in November, provides a history of commercial conflict resolution.     

Table of Contents

• ADR 360° / Part 3
  • The ADR Field and Marketplace: Evolution, Growth, Taking Stock, and Where to from Here
  • By David Plimpton
• CPR News
  • May/June Meetings, Events, Publications
• Book Extract
  • What's Wrong with Mediation These Days, and How Can We Fix It?
  • By Will Pryor
• Interview
  • Kathy Bryan: Her Accomplishments at CPR Mark a Great Leader
  • By Albert W. Driver
• The Master Mediator / Part 1
  • Looking My Way: Thinking Fast and Slow … and Mediator Sense
  • By Robert A. Creo
• ADR Briefs
  • Unbalanced Arbitration Agreements and Unconscionability
  • By Alexandra Douglas

     

Table of Contents

• ADR Skills
  • Whose Trial Is It Anyway? Using Improv To Help Lawyers ‘Present’ More Effectively
  • By Jeffrey Krivis and Brian Breiter
• CPR News
  • The Honorees and the Date: The 2010 CPR Corporate Leadership Award Dinner
  • By Russ Bleemer
• Worldly Perspectives
  • Algeria: A Free‐Market Embrace for Arbitration … With Indifference Toward Mediation Development
  • By Giuseppe De Palo and Mary B. Trevor
• ADR Procedures
  • With Arbitration Facing Restrictions, It's Time To Look at a U.K. Solution for Consumer Disputes
  • By Adam Samuel
• ADR Brief
  • N.J. Court Committee Proposes Removing Representation Requirement
  • By Russ Bleemer

     

Table of Contents

• ADR Process
  • Neutral Selection: Some Guidance from a Neutral
  • by Peter L. Michaelson
• CPR News
  • June/July Meetings and Events
  • CPR's Second Annual Brazil Business Mediation Congress: Resolving Conflicts in a More Transparent World
• Arbitration
  • FINRA's Arbitration Agreement: Second Class Status?
  • by Adam Weinstein and Bette Shifman
• The Master Mediator
  • Looking My Way: Thinking Fast and Slow … and Mediator Sense
  • by Robert A. Creo
• ADR Briefs
  • New Rule on Accelerated Adjudication Procedures in New York State Courts ‐ by Lia Iannetti
  • How Much Litigation Waives Right to Arbitration? ‐ by Bette Shifman
  • Manifest Disregard—Alive if Not Well? ‐ by Cynthia Galvez

     

2005 Spring meeting set for Chicago

This month's Spring Meeting in Chicago; Alternatives' new compilation; and ADR awards from the U.S. Office of Management and Budget are highlighted.     

To ‘start the ball rolling,’ Dupont pledges support for diversity task force

Details on support for the CPR National Task Force on Diversity in ADR; a new CPR award, and a new CPR CPA neutrals' panel     

Stipanowich resigns,and heads to Pepperdine's Straus Institute

CPR President Thomas J. Stipanowich will depart to become academic director at Pepperdine University School of Law's Straus Institute. Full details on the move are provided, along with information on CPR's Annual ADR Award winners; a new commission on facilities for mass claims' resolution, and more.     

The question of leadership: Guiding growth in Europe; Also: England's top judge on the courts' role in conflict resolution

The initial highlights from CPR's first European Business Mediation Congress last fall, including words of strong ADR support from England's highest ranking judge.     

Corporate leadership award: How Conocophillips manages disputes

Behind the CPR 2007 Corporate Leadership Award, a top ConocoPhillips Inc. attorney discusses the oil giant's ADR‐first strategy.     

Court committtee opinion limiting ADR representation raises constitutional issues,as well as problems rooted in protectionism

More commentary on a January New Jersey Supreme Court committee's unauthorized practice of law opinion restricting ADR representation. Paul M. Lurie, of Chicago, writes that the committee's stance raises constitutional issues, and reviews analogous state regulations around the country     

‘Improvisational negotiation,’ leads 2007 CPR awards; Nigeria ADR group gets special award

A rundown of the 2006 CPR Institute Awards for Excellence in ADR, given out last month at CPR's Annual Meeting in New York. Also, CPR announces a new addition to its Panels of Distinguished Neutrals     

Table of Contents

• International ADR
  • Mediating between the Bar and the Government? Italy's Attorneys Strike over a New ADR Law
  • By Giuseppe De Palo
• CPR News
  • New Protocol on Arbitration Damages is Released
  • Online CLE Ethics: Negotiation, Mediation Confidentiality, and Arbitrator Disclosure
  • Next Month: A Training, and Y‐ADR Returns
  • More on CPR's Annual Awards Two Law Firms, a Harvard Clinic, and Five Written Works
  • Highlights from the CPR Annual Meeting
  • By Russ Bleemer
• ADR Procedures/Part 2 of 2
  • Results and Observations: How a Multistep Med‐Arb Produced a Fast(er) Settlement
  • By Robert L. Ebe
• Worldly Perspectives
  • ADR in Spain: Slow Progress has Begun to Speed up
  • By Giuseppe De Palo and Mary B. Trevor
• ADR Brief
  • Court Connections to Mediation Permits Trial Admissibility
  • By Madeleine Elkan

     

CPR euro meetings produce plans for new initiatives

A rundown of recent activities by the CPR European Insurance Committee and the European Advisory Committee; a DVD of a negotiation exercise from last January's Annual Meeting, suitable for training use, is now available; more from Philadelphia's Stradley Ronon on winning the first CPR Law Firm Award for Excellence in ADR, and highlights from the first day of CPR's 2007 Fall Meeting in Boston     

Final call for reservations: Next month's corporate leadership awards dinner

Last call for next month's Corporate Leadership Awards Dinner in NYC honoring Microsoft Corp. and its general counsel, Brad Smith. Also, details about CPR's new website; the free International Dispute Negotiation podcasts, and a call for nominations for the 2008 CPR Institute Awards for Excellence in ADR.     

Appellate mediation no‐show sanctions help solidify a Florida court program

Sanctions by an appellate court for a mediation conducted under the court's ADR program are part of a line of cases that could help support a statewide appellate mediation program in Florida.