Registration is now open for the Section of Dispute Resolution 14th Annual Spring Conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., April 18-21st.
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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 Mediation week has begun, and Governor Robert Bentley has declared by proclamation October 21st as Mediation Day in Alabama. Thanks to the Governor’s Legal Advisor, Cooper Shattuck, for making this happen. The Alabama Center for Dispute Resolution and the Appellate Mediation Office are hosting appellate mediation training on the 21st at the Alabama State Bar. Gary Canner, Esq., 11th Circuit Mediator, Retired, will be the appellate trainer. Joining him are Rebecca Oates, Assistant Clerk of the Court of Civil Appeals who administers that Court’s appellate mediation program; Celeste Sabel, Esq., Senior Staff Attorney for the Supreme Court of Alabama and appellate mediation administrator; and Michelle Ohme, the Program Coordinator for the Alabama Appellate Mediation Program. Chief Justice Charles R. Malone of the Supreme Cour of Alabama, and William C. Thompson, Presiding Judge of the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals will make remarks. A panel of distinguished appellate mediators will join the 25 participants for lunch and discussion: Hon. Arthur J. Hanes, Jr., Upchurch, Watson, White & Max, Birmingham; Justice R. Bernard Harwood, Jr., Rosen Harwood, PA, Tuscaloosa; and Debra Black Leo, Esq., Supervisory ADR Coordinator, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Birmingham. Mediators who mediate this week will ask those for whom they mediate to take a mediation effectiveness survey as part of a state-wide initiative by the Alabama Supreme Court Commission on Dispute Resolution (www.alabamaadr.org). District court mediation program coordinators have also been asked to participate: Rob Stankoski, Fairhope; Lee Davis, Culllman; Cheryl Leatherwood, Ozark; Heather Boone, Selma; Vicki Bonner-Ward, Wetumpka; Kirk Garrett, Brewton; Steve Overby, Dothan; Read Haughery, Opelika; Margie Stellingwerf, Huntsville; Al Giles, Mobile; Kim Gully, Decatur; and Ken Dunham, professor for Jones School of Law Mediation Course and Clinic and his students will survey participants in Montgomery.  Al Jiles, Esq. Al Giles, Esq., who spent many hours getting the Mobile District Court Mediation Program up and running , as well as mediating for the program, was the 2011 Alabama State Bar Pro Bono Mediator Award winner. The award is presented each year by the Volunteer Lawyers Program of the Bar to a mediator who exceeds in pro bono mediation efforts. Al received the award at the Annual Bench & Bar Luncheon, Thursday, July 14, 2011 at the Grand Hotel, Point Clear, Alabama. He gave over 600 hours to the Mobile program. Congratulations, Al, and thank you for all your work! Mediation job well done. The Mediation Training Institute International once again is offering its Mediation at Sea Cruise to the Caribbean–Cozumel, Costa Maya, Belize City and Roatan–leaving from New Orleans. To find out more about dates, ship, etc. go to http://www.mediationworks.com/mti/cruise2011/  Michelle Ohme, Gary Canner, Rebecca Oates, Celeste Sabel Appellate Mediation Training with Gary Canner, Esq., retired 11th Circuit mediator, is set for October 6, 2010, at the Alabama State Bar. This one day course with 6 hours CLE and 1 hour ethics, sponsored by the Alabama Center for Dispute Resolution and the Appellate Mediation Office, is a requirement for mediators seeking to register on the Appellate Mediation Roster. We promise Gary will keep this entertaining and interesting, and we provide the lunch. Judges from the appellate courts usually stop by. For draft agenda: AppellateAgenda 2010; For registration form: Registration2010logo Faulkner Law Review has sent out a call for papers for their ADR print symposium in Volume 2, Issue 3, which is to be published in early May 2011. Proposals should be in the form of abstracts of no more than 500 words and accompanied by the author’s resume or curriculum vitae by September 10, 2010. Target length for articles is 12,000 words; for essays the number is 5,000. See the attached PDF, or contact J. Carlton Sims, Editor-in-Chief, Faulkner Law Review at jamesc.sims@faulkner.edu
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This year’s Congress of Mediators Beyond Borders will be held in Washington, D.C. on March 5-7, 2009. MBB is involved in preventive, post-disaster, and pre and post war peacebuilding, with an emphasis on conflict resolution skills training, capacity-building, coaching and consulting. In the past three years MBB has grown into an international organization with more than 200 members and various projects around the globe. For more information: