Does Life imitate Art or does Art imitate Life?

Failing to prepare for mediation is the same as preparing to fail … yet attorneys do this all the time.

When a door closes, a window always opens.

Accusing an arbitration panel of not being impartial requires a high burden of proof.

COVID-19 Continues to Force Proceedings Online.

That is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of alternative dispute resolution, Or to take arms against a sea of lawyers And by opposing end them.

Is Functus Officio no more?

Thoughts on how claims should be valued going into a mediation…

Yo, I'll tell you what I want, what I really, really want
So tell me what you want, what you really, really want
I'll tell you what I want, what I really, really want
So tell me what you want, what you really, really want
I wanna, (ha) I wanna, (ha) I wanna, (ha) I wanna, (ha)
I wanna really, really, really wanna zigazig…

Lawyers are trained to fight and win for their clients. That’s why so many fall short when it comes time to mediate their case.

There is more than one way to slice the arbitration pizza.

Reasonable notice undergoes new scrutiny.

A case in New York City may affect employment arbitrations in Ohio.

Should we now be rethinking how we conceive of mediation hearings?

Norms and protocols for Online Dispute Resolution are slowly emerging.

SCOTUS takes back a case interpreting the Federal Arbitration Act.

When a mediator says too much …

Reconciling Peters v. Columbus Steel Castings with the Federal Arbitration Act.

Agreeing to a virtual arbitration is a way to get your dispute resolved during the pandemic.