by Marvin Schuldiner | Jun 5, 2007 | Commercial Mediation
The International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (CPR) recently conducted a survey of 126 U.S. corporate counsel and outside counsel. They were asked their opinion about alternative dispute resolution. Here are the results of the survey: Rank of...
by Marvin Schuldiner | Jun 5, 2007 | Commercial Mediation
Mediation, relatively speaking, is a new field or science (at least in the formal sense…people have been informally mediating disputes for millenia). Last month, mediation lost one of its stars in Sam Kagel. Mr. Kagel helped settle labor disputes primarily,...
by Marvin Schuldiner | May 22, 2007 | Commercial Mediation
Many of you have heard of the weight loss drug Fen-phen. This drug, after being banned by the FDA, was the subject of a class action lawsuit against the manufacturer. Subsequent to that lawsuit resolving, there was another lawsuit that was questioning the fees paid...
by Marvin Schuldiner | May 17, 2007 | Commercial Mediation
I found it rather surprising to learn that Belize — a former British colony located in central America — only recently had its first mediators trained (by professionals from Jamaica). Britain is the country that brought most of our modern legal prinicples...
by Marvin Schuldiner | May 8, 2007 | Arbitration, Commercial Mediation
Following up on the post about Binding Mediation, it seems that the mediator turned into an arbitrator and made his ruling. Even though this turned into an arbitration from a mediation, all sides appeared to be very happy with the process and the outcome. Both sides...
by Marvin Schuldiner | May 8, 2007 | Arbitration, Commercial Mediation
The headline in the Halifax Daily News blares: “Union Agrees to Binding Mediation”. Given that mediation isn’t binding unless the parties come to an agreement during mediation, I was curious to see if we had yet another reporter without a clue or...
