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7th Annual Arbitration Institute
The ABA presents this Institute in Philadelphia, June 21-23, 2012. Registration is now open at the link, below.
Who Should Attend?
- Attend if you are seeking a career move to arbitration
- Attend if you are an experienced arbitrator or advocate wanting to better understand recent issues in arbitration and improve your skills
- Attend if you are a litigator wanting to better utilize arbitration and gain insights about how arbitrators approach their task
Registration Information: http://www.americanbar.org/calendar/2012/06/7th_annual_arbitrationtraininginstituteacomprehensivetraininginc/registration.html
 Peacemaker Ministries has posted this year’s training at their website. The mission of the Ministry is to equip Christians and their churches to repond to conflict Biblically. If you are interested, please use the link, below.
http://www.peacemaker.net/site/c.aqKFLTOBIpH/b.1118441/k.A3A8/Training_Calendar.htm?tr=y&auid=10366858
Though the focus of this short article by president and CEO of the American Aribtration Association, William K. Slate II, is mostly arbitration, many of the issues apply to the future of mediaiton as well. Experienced-based innovation, and suitability to adapting new technology are two of the possible pluses. For more: http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202535040657
Registration is now open for the Section of Dispute Resolution 14th Annual Spring Conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., April 18-21st.
To register: http://www2.americanbar.org/calendar/14th-annual-section-of-dispute-resolution-spring-conference/Pages/Registration.aspx
Successfully Navigating Arbitration Through Hearing and Award: ‘Interim’ & ‘Partial Final’ Awards, Remedies, Prevailing Party and Cost-Shifting Issues
JANUARY 10, 2012
12:00 PM – 1:15 PM Eastern Time
 Highly respected experts in the ADR field will discuss how to navigate your way through some of the critical issues that arise during the hearing and awards process of arbitration cases. Topics that will be covered include: how to conduct a “phased” hearing, duty to defend, and what arbitration rules may or may not constrain the arbitrator. In addition, find out what issues need to be considered in issuing any decisions or rulings prior to the Final Award; how to determine who is the “prevailing party” and what is a reasonable fee or cost shift to prevailing party. And, finally should you base your answers on state statutes or other laws? Attend and discover the answers to these questions and many more.
Moderator:
Kurt Dettman, Constructive Dispute Resolution, Hingham, MA
Speakers:
Carl F. Ingwalson, Mediation & Arbitration Offices, San Diego, CA
Judith B. Ittig, Ittig & Ittig PC, Washington, DC
Registration deadline, January 9, 2012.
Price:
$55 – ABA Section of Dispute Resolution members
$95 – ABA members
$115 – General/Non-members
Register on-line at: https://apps.americanbar.org/aba_timssnet/meetings/tnt_meetings.cfm?action=long&primary_id=DR11091&webtextid=60605&Subsystem=MTG&related_prod_flag=0
Read Haughery and the Honorable Richard Lane (Ret.)
Read Haughery, who has served as volunteer mediation coordinator for the District Court of Lee County, Alabama for almost 14 years, enjoyed an “almost” retirement party on November 28th, 2011. Read will still be doing some mediation coordination work with the Court on a contract basis. The Honorable Richard D. Lane, Lee County Family Court (retired) attended as did Read’s court friends and other judges.
With the help of the Administrative Office of the Courts, (AOC) the Lee County volunteer program began with juvenile conferencing, which enabled juveniles, their community and trained facilitators to work on plans to help the juveniles be accountable for mistakes without having juvenile records.
Court volunteers were then trained in mediation and began to mediate in small claims court. Read Haughery was both coordinator and mediator. Ken Dunham, Esq., ADR professor at Jones School of Law, and Judy Keegan, Esq., Director of the Alabama Center for Dispute Resolution, were trainers. Some of the volunteer mediators then received divorce and family mediation training and began to help parents with parenting plans.
Read has been instrumental in keeping the program going, and in branching out even more to see that students in local schools receive peer mediation training to learn to settle conflict without violence early in life. Thank you Read for all your efforts on behalf of the Court and the schools!
Mike Ford, Esq., mediator in Florence, Alabama, reports on the Lauderdale County Mediation Project.
The Mediation Project was the brainchild of Circuit Judge Gil Self, and heartily endorsed by Judge Mike Jones. These judges handle most of the civil jury cases. They appointed me to be “mediation coordinator” which means I match up the litigants with the mediators I think would be best for their cases.
Three of our jury terms were cancelled this year for lack of funds, and these vacated jury terms are now our mediation weeks. I have scheduled 17 mediations for the December mediation week, using 9 area mediators. I ask the mediators and litigants to start the mediation sessions in the courtrooms, but that is just my effort to impress upon them that this is a court “sponsored” program.
Some mediations are pro bono, but I ask the parties to pay the mediators $750 in most cases. I used the number from the Florida foreclosure mediation program. These are cases that have resisted settlement efforts and are headed for trial. When we settle one of them, I feel like we have accomplished something!
TELECONFERENCE : Arbitration from Clause to Hearing, December 13, 2011 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm ET
The ABA presents this program designed to take you from drafting the arbitration clause to the hearing. Learn techniques that will help in the arbitration process. Presenters will provide a sample arbitration clause and discuss drafting and deconstruction issues, preliminary considerations that should not be overlooked and areas of potential dispute to consider before going to contract. The focus will also include arbitrality, who decides the scope of the arbitration, arbitrator selection, arbitration rules and discovery.
Speakers: Richard Chernick, JAMS, Los Angeles, CA Michael Timpane, JAMS, San Francisco, CA
Price: $55 – ABA Section of Dispute Resolution members $95 – ABA members $115 – General/Non-members
Registration: Register online or fill out and return the registration form. https://apps.americanbar.org/aba_timssnet/meetings/tnt_meetings.cfm?action=long&primary_id=DR1112&webtextid=62891&Subsystem=MTG&related_prod_flag=0
Registration Deadline – December 12, 2011 CLE Information: The ABA will seek 1.25 hours of CLE credit in 60-minute-hour states and 1.5 hours of CLE credit in 50-minute-hour states in states accrediting ABA live webinars and teleconferences.* NY-licensed attorneys: This non-transitional CLE program has been approved for experienced NY-licensed attorneys in accordance with the requirements of the New York State CLE Board for 1.5 for 75-minute program New York CLE credits. *States currently not accrediting ABA live webinars and teleconferences: IN, KS, NE, NJ, OH, PA.
The United States Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution invites you to share your knowledge at the seventh national conference, ERC2012: “Working Across Boundaries,” which will be held on May 22-24, 2012, at the JW Marriott Starr Pass in Tucson, Arizona. The event will be filled with training workshops, plenary discussions, technology exhibits, panel sessions and presentations across four proposed conference tracts: Track I: Tribal Consultation, Collaboration and ECR; Track II: Collaborating at New and Larger Scales; Track III: Building Institutional and Practitioner Capacity for ECR and Collaboration ; Track IV: ECR in Administrative and Litigation Contexts.
For questions or additional information please contact conference coordinators Pam Carlson carlson@ecr.gov or Tina Gargus at gargus@ecr.gov. More information available at www.ecr.gov/AnnouncementsEvents/Announcements/ECR2012
Kimberly Schreiber, Esq. of Eldercare Resolved, LLC, Gallatin, TN and fellow trainers will be in Mobile, Alabama this December to present a three day Elder Mediation training–the first one in Alabama.
According to Kimberly, “Elder mediation training guides the participants to think abouy the complexities of elder law and elder mediation by helping them develop skills and specific strategies for working with large, complex groups.” This training provides an overview of legal planning, challenges of aging, family dynamics, and gives resources for attorneys and mediators to give to their clients. Alabama CLE credit.
For more information contact Kimberly Schreiber, Esq. 615-681-7585
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