Articles in Channel: Alternative Dispute Resolution

Highlights from the World Directory of ADR Blogs

Diane Levin
November 21, 2008 20:02

Fellow mediator and blogger Geoff Sharp and I issued a challenge today to our fellow ADR bloggers: pick your best post from 2008 and submit it, then readers will choose the top three from all the submissions.  This friendly competition is open to any blog listed on the World Directory of ADR Blogs ...

Calling all ADR bloggers - is one of your posts the best in 2008?

Diane Levin
November 21, 2008 14:38

ADR blogs Mediation Channel and mediator blah… blah… are combining in a quest to find the 3 best mediation and negotiation related posts written in 2008. Together we are asking all ADR bloggers to send us your very favorite mediation/negotiation related post that you have written this...

Stark & Stark Attorney Featured on Legally Speaking

Stark & Stark
November 21, 2008 13:34

Michael J. Fekete, member of Stark & Stark's Business & Corporate group, was a featured guest on the Camden County Bar Foundation's weekly television talk show Legally Speaking on Sunday November 9, 2009. Mr. Fekete discussed the New Jersey Home Improvement Law,  the Consumer Fraud Act...

This Twitter Thing is Certain to Come to No Good!

Victoria Pynchon
November 21, 2008 02:04

There's an infinite regression angle to this.

Feeling Extorted? Mr. Molski's Serial ADA Litigation and Why We Settle

Victoria Pynchon
November 20, 2008 17:35

Many in the legal blogosphere are buzzing about the recent Supreme Court decision letting stand a Central District injunction barring wheelchair-bound Jarek Molski from filing further ADA accessibility cases in our local federal trial court here in Los Angeles.  See Justice Berzon's and...

Studies Draw Positive Conclusions about Consumer Arbitration

November 20, 2008 16:59

The Current State of Consumer Arbitration authors Sarah Rudolph Cole and Theodore Frank take a look at empirical evidence on consumer arbitration in the Fall issue of the ABA Dispute Resolution Magazine. After analyzing the Public Citizen report and evidence collected in California and elsewhere,...

Master the geography of collaboration with the latest edition of The Complete Lawyer

Diane Levin
November 20, 2008 16:47

The latest edition of The Complete Lawyer is now available, putting the focus on “Doing Business Internationally.” The Complete Lawyer is a web-based magazine focusing on quality of life and career satisfaction for attorneys but with relevance for dispute resolution professionals as well.  It feat...

Massachusetts Uniform Mediation Act: time to make your opinion count online or in person

Diane Levin
November 20, 2008 16:28

Since 2006, a group of mediators in Massachusetts, designating itself the MassUMA Working Group, has met regularly to discuss the adoption of the Uniform Mediation Act (”UMA”) in the Commonwealth. The UMA protects communications made during a mediation and establishes a limited...

Almighty Tax Lien Loses Battle to Environmental Escrow in Condemnation Action

Timothy P. Duggan
November 20, 2008 13:05

Recently, the Appellate Division of the Superior Court of New Jersey was required to determine whether the holders of  tax sale certificates for unpaid real estate taxes were entitled to be paid from the proceeds of a condemnation award when the estimated environmental clean-up costs exceed...

To err is human: how do we keep our feet out of our mouths in the first place?

Diane Levin
November 20, 2008 09:49

Last week, legal marketing guru Larry Bodine put his foot in it with a blog post describing the “Best ‘Elevator Pitch’ Ever…?”, courtesy of a “silver-haired senior-most litigator” who relies on a cheap joke about the Holocaust to woo business...