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Introducing KolarBayer – Legal Counsel for Small Business
By Renee Kolar - March 11, 2016
Meet KolarBayer, our new firm dedicated to providing legal counsel for small business at fair value.
Nominate Disputing for Best Legal Blog of the Year!
By Renee Kolar - August 20, 2015
Disputing is up for Best Legal Blog of the year and we need your help! Every year, the Expert Institute creates the largest and most comprehensive ranking of legal blogs online today as chosen by thousands of voters. If you enjoy reading our ADR focused blogs then nominate Disputing (disputingblog.com) for the Niche and Specialty category! Deadline for nominations is this Friday.
SXSW 2016 PanelPicker Voting Has Begun!
By Renee Kolar - August 13, 2015
The Karl Bayer Team has submitted two speaking proposals for SXSW 2016 Interactive Festival and encourages everyone to go vote!
Exciting Changes Ahead!
By Renee Kolar - July 17, 2015
We’re excited to announce that the office of Karl Bayer, Dispute Resolution Expert (KBDRE), has outgrown its North Austin facilities!
Texas Supreme Court Finds Arbitration Clause in Attorney-Client Contract Was Not Unconscionable, Against Public Policy or Illusory
By Renee Kolar - June 28, 2015
In Royston, Rayzor, Vickery & Williams, LLP v. Francisco (Frank) Lopez, the Texas supreme court reversed an interlocutory appeal from the Corpus Christi court of appeals, holding that the plaintiff did not prove that an arbitration provision in an attorney-client employment contract was substantively unconscionable nor did the plaintiff prove any other defense to the arbitration provision.
Summary of Managing Construction Conflict: Unfinished Revolution, Continuing Evolution (Part III)
By Renee Kolar - August 29, 2014
In part III of Managing Construction Conflict: Unfinished Revolution, Continuing Evolution, Professor Stipanowich highlights five trends that are likely to have a growing impact on our lives, on law practice and the management of conflict. Those five trends are: technology, globalization, insights through behavioral science and "big data," longer productive lives (active retirement), and education and credentialing in the professional practice.
Summary of Managing Construction Conflict: Unfinished Revolution, Continuing Evolution (Part II)
By Renee Kolar - August 27, 2014
In Part II of Managing Construction Conflict: Unfinished Revolution, Continuing Evolution, Professor Stipanowich discusses which of the dispute resolution methods from the end of the twentieth century are still used today and describes the current situation of dispute resolution in the construction industry.
Summary of Managing Construction Conflict: Unfinished Revolution, Continuing Evolution (Part I)
By Renee Kolar - August 25, 2014
Professor Stipanowich has recently completed another article for The Construction Lawyer titled Managing Construction Conflict: Unfinished Revolution, Continuing Evolution which discusses the evolution of different dispute resolution methods in the construction industry. While his paper focuses on the evolution of these methods in the construction industry, several of his findings are also indicative of trends in ADR evolution more generally. In
Managing Construction Conflict: Unfinished Revolution, Continuing Evolution
By Renee Kolar - August 22, 2014
Thomas J. Stipanowich, Academic Director of the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, William H. Webster Chair in Dispute Resolution, and Professor of Law at the Pepperdine University School of Law just completed yet another article for a special issue of The Construction Lawyer titled: Managing Construction Conflict: Unfinished Revolution, Continuing Evolution; Pepperdine University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2014/22.
Three Surveys Offering New Insights into ADR Practices
By Renee Kolar - July 22, 2014
Professor Thomas Stipanowich recently published information regarding three major surveys conducted by the The Straus Institute’s Theory-to-Practice Research Project that produced a wide array of new information on arbitrator and mediator practices as well as insights into corporate use of ADR.
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