Strong Headings, No Cliches, Precise Verbs: How to Craft a Winning Arbitration Brief
The ability to nudge the decider of your case over to your side and frame the issues under consideration in your way in a single sentence is a very powerful skill.
Practice Area: Alternative Dispute Resolution
Legal Innovation Tournament To Highlight Apps Designed to Help the Underrepresented and Improve Access to Justice
Underserved members of the public could resolve their everyday legal matters more effectively and efficiently through apps developed by law students across New York. That’s the theory behind the Legal Innovation Tournament, which is being sponsored by the New York State Bar Association, Hofstra’s Maurice A. Deane School of Law and Fred DeMatteis School of … Continued
New York Dispute Resolution Lawyer – Summer 2020
The new issue of Dispute Resolution Lawyer is here!
An Early Experience with Arbitration by Video
Faced with a mid-hearing adjournment of a complex, high-stakes arbitration, we worked with opposing counsel and the tribunal to restart and complete the hearing a week later by videoconference.
ADR Law Student Writing Competition
Sponsored by the Dispute Resolution Section of the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA) and the American College of Civil Trial Mediators (ACCTM). The purpose of this competition is to heighten interest in, and competence related to, student writing on the subject of Alternate Dispute Resolution. Aside from the $10,000 cash grand prize, and … Continued
NYSBA To Reach Out to World’s Bar Associations
Over the next five months, New York State Bar Association President Hank Greenberg will reach out to every major bar association around the world. “Our goal is to make connections and to enter into memoranda of understanding (MOUs) with as many international bar associations as possible,” said Greenberg. “This is the future of our association,” … Continued