Comprehensive Commercial Arbitration Training for Arbitrators and Counsel 2023

Topics to be Included:

• Selecting Arbitrators
• Conducting Conflicts Searches
• Conducting the Preliminary Hearing
• Conducting Hearings on Applications for Preliminary Injunctions and Other Interim Relief
• Determining the appropriate scope of discovery, including documents, electronic documents and depositions
• Determining the appropriate scope of motion practice
• Setting deadlines for discovery and motion practice
• Hearing discovery and substantive motions
• Addressing motions to disqualify counsel
• Special considerations for pro se parties
• Determining what non-party subpoenas to sign 
• Running the hearing effectively
• Determining what evidence to admit and exclude
• Dealing with difficult arbitrators, counsel and parties
• Issues as to the authority or not of arbitrators to award sanctions
• Preparing awards, both standard and reasoned 
• Handling requests to submit additional evidence after the closing of the hearing
• Deciding applications to amend awards
• Arbitration ethics, diversity, and inclusion
• Seeking vacatur of awards
• Cyber security in arbitration
• Building an ADR Practice, Opportunities in the Field
• Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Speakers

Oliver J. Armas, Partner, Hogan Lovells US LLP 

Hon. Ariel E. Belen (Ret.), JAMS

Leslie Berkoff, Partner, Moritt Hock & Hamroff LLP

Steven A. Certilman, C.Arb, FCIArb, Certilman ADR

Theo Cheng, Arbitrator and Mediator, Past Chair, NYSBA Dispute Resolution Section

Stephanie Cohen, Arbitrator, FCIArb

Joseph V. DeMarco, Partner, DeMarco Law, PLLC

Diana Didia, Senior Vice President and CIO, AAA-ICDR

Paul Di Pietro, Counsel, ICC Court Secretariat, New York

Matthew Draper, Draper & Draper, LLC

Eugene I. Farber, Partner, FarberADR PLLC

Evan K. Farber, Partner, Loeb & Loeb LLP

Hon. Mary Barzee Flores (Ret.), Arbitrator and Mediator

Hon. Helen E. Freedman (Ret.), Arbitrator and Mediator, JAMS

Tracey B. Frisch, Senior Counsel, American Arbitration Association

Linda Gerstel, Arbitrator and Mediator 

Ignatius Grande, Director, Global Investigations + Strategic Intelligence, BRG

Noah J. Hanft, Arbitrator and Mediator, ADR Advisor, Chair, Dispute Resolution Section

Abbey Hawthorne, Deputy Director, ICC Dispute Resolution Services, New York

Betsy A. Hellmann, Counsel, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Sherman W. Kahn, Partner, Mauriel Kapouytian Woods LLP; Past Chair, NYSBA Dispute Resolution Section

Mansi Karol, Director of ADR Services, American Arbitration Association

Ross J. Kartez, Arbitrator and Mediator, Past Chair, NYSBA Dispute Resolution Section

Laura A. Kaster, Arbitrator and Mediator, Past Chair, NYSBA Dispute Resolution Section

Lea Haber Kuck, Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Carissa Laughlin, Principal Counsel in FINRA’s Office of General Counsel

Ann Lesser, Vice President, American Arbitration Association

Mia Levi, Vice President, CPR Dispute Resolution

Jack P. Levin, Arbitrator and Mediator

Luis M. Martinez, Vice President, International Centre for Dispute Resolution®

Deborah Masucci, Arbitrator and Mediator, Past Chair of the NYSBA and ABA Dispute Resolution Sections, FCIarb

Richard L. Mattiaccio, Arbitrator and Mediator; FCIArb C.Arb

Barbara A Mentz, Independent Arbitrator

Boaz S. Morag, Counsel, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP

Mark C. Morril, Arbitrator

Charles J. Moxley, Jr., Arbitrator and Mediator; Past Chair, NYSBA Dispute Resolution Section

Abigail Pessen, Arbitrator and Mediator; Past Chair, NYSBA Dispute Resolution Section

Amy M. Pontillo, Associate Counsel, NYS UCS ADR Office

Rekha Rangachari, Executive Director, New York International Arbitration Center (NYIAC)

Colin Rule, CEO, odr.com, Mediate.com, Arbitrate.com

Hon. Shira A. Scheindlin (Ret.), Counsel, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP

Danielle Shalov, Director, Arbitration and Mediation Program, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Hon. Peter Sherwood (Ret.), Senior Counsel, Ganfer Shore leeds & Zauderer LLP

Richard H. Silberberg, Partner, Dorsey & Whitney LLP; Past President, College of Commercial Arbitrators 

David C. Singer, Arbitrator and Mediator; Past Chair, NYSBA Dispute Resolution Section

Michelle Skipper, Vice President, American Arbitration Association

Steven Skulnik, Senior Legal Editor, Thomson Reuters, and Arbitrator, FCIArb

Edna Sussman, Arbitrator and Mediator; Past Chair, NYSBA Dispute Resolution Section

Michael T. Walsh, Arbitrator and Mediator, Law Offices of Michael T. Walsh

Robyn Weinstein, Director, Cardozo Mediation Clinic, Associate Director of the Kukin Program for Conflict Resolution, Cardozo School of Law 

Daniel M. Weitz, Director, Division of Professional & Court Services, New York State Unified Court System; Adjunct Professor of Law, Cardozo Law School

Matthew P. York, Vice President, JAMS 

Jeffrey T. Zaino, Vice President, American Arbitration Association

Richard Ziegler, Arbitrator and Mediator