Prevention can play a significant role in handling legal and business disputes. Business partners, government contractors, and alternative dispute professionals should use...Read More
Most practitioners, and even arbitrators, assume arbitrators have the inherent power to issue third-party discovery subpoenas to obtain document discovery in domestic...Read More
In a rare occurrence, the California Court of Appeal for the Fourth Appellate District vacated an arbitration award in Brown v. TGS Management Co. LLC in October on the...Read More
The Best Dispute Resolution is Prevention
Will Work For Food and “Mediation: The New Possibilities Hour.” Our special guests are Janice Sperow, Arbitrator & Mediator, Sperow ADR and Ellen Parker, Senior Vice President, CPR Institute Come learn about the next wave of conflict resolution: dispute prevention. Much like mediation hit the legal community with a new approach, dispute prevention strategies, which use some of the...Read More
Courts and arbitrators across the nation, faced with pandemic-generated, unprecedented backlogs, seem more willing to entertain docket-clearing motions.
While for some...Read More
As the unprecedented global pandemic has disrupted businesses and lives worldwide, prevention may be the best legal as well as medical remedy. The onslaught of...Read More
Many parties, contractually bound to arbitrate, have turned to online arbitration rather than wait out the global pandemic to resolve their matters. Cheaper and faster than...Read More
1. Faster
Parties usually get to hearing within a year of filing and even quicker for simpler and expedited disputes whereas a court case will often wend its way through...Read More
One arbitrator’s view of how you can structure the discovery process.
The Agreement Controls
Discovery in arbitration, like the arbitration process itself, starts with the...Read More