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GUEST-POST | Possible Outcomes for Class Arbitration Waivers in Consumer Contracts
By Victoria VanBuren - June 2, 2010
[Ed. note: Following find interesting comments about AT&T v. Concepcion, a case pending before the U.S. Supreme Court. Read more about the case here. These comments were first posted at Paul Lurie’s excellent listserv and we are reprinting them with the author’s permission.] By James M. Gaitis Ultimately, we are faced with at least four different possible outcomes for consumer arbitration provisions containing class preclusion clauses.
CPR Webcast, June 8, 2010 |Deal or No Deal: Leveraging Information to Overcome Psychological Barriers to Efficient Deals
By Victoria VanBuren - June 1, 2010
Mark your calendars! Don Philbin, contributor of this blog, will host next week an interesting Webcast entitled “Deal or No Deal: Leveraging Information to Overcome Psychological Barriers to Efficient Deals.” Following is the program description: Using newly-developed computer animation models and traditional decision trees, we will explore the interactive use of outcome scenarios as a means to overcome barriers to settlement. By elic
GUEST-POST PART II | Questions Clients Have about Mediation: What are the Advantages and Disadvantages of Mediation?
By Victoria VanBuren - June 1, 2010
By Kent B. Scott and Cody W. Wilson Clients always want to know the advantages and disadvantages of mediation. Without this information it would be difficult to decide whether to mediate. Here is a brief list of mediation’s main advantages. Little discovery is needed. Mediation can take place without having to complete the time-consuming and expensive “discovery process” associated with litigation. (In discovery, the parties can ask each other to
Conflict Management in The Joint Commission’s Medical Staff Standard
By Jane Reister Conard - May 28, 2010
Last March The Joint Commission announced its long awaited, revised medical staff standard (MS) 01.01.01, which will replace MS 1.20. The new MS 01.01.01 becomes effective March 31, 2011, to allow facilities and medical staffs to prepare for implementation. The intent of the MS 01.01.01 is, inter alia, to establish a conflict management process in the event of a conflict between/among the medical staff, medical executive committee, and the govern
GUEST-POST PART I | Questions Clients Have about Mediation: What is Mediation?
By Victoria VanBuren - May 25, 2010
By Kent B. Scott and Cody W. Wilson This series of posts will pose questions that clients have about mediation. We have found that mediation is most successful when attorneys and clients work through these questions together and map out a plan to achieve their objective—an agreed settlement rather than a resolution imposed by a judge, jury or arbitrator. The questions clients have about mediation are tools that can be used to design a successful
Law Review Article: Jurisdictional Discovery in United States Federal Courts
By Victoria VanBuren - May 19, 2010
For those interested in discovery, Dr. S.I. Strong, Professor of Law at the University of Missouri and contributor to this blog, wrote recently an excellent article entitled “Jurisdictional Discovery in United States Federal Courts.” The piece appears in 67 Washington and Lee Law Review 489 (2010). Here is the abstract: Jurisdictional discovery ties together three principles central to federal civil procedure: the right to broad disco
GUEST-POST | Cognitive Errors in Ligation
By Victoria VanBuren - May 17, 2010
By Don Philbin As a student of decision errors in litigation, I was happy to see another empirical study come out this week confirming what we already know with increasing confidence – even well-trained lawyers are subject to the cognitive errors that throw humans’ calibrations off target. We all have to be confident to get out of bed. Parties assigned to buy or sell a house, car, or lawsuit reach different valuations depending simply on which si
GUEST-POST | Texas Supreme Court Compels Arbitration in Slip and Fall at Hospice
By Victoria VanBuren - May 10, 2010
By Glen M. Wilkerson Last Friday, the Texas Supreme Court handed down another arbitration case in In Re Odyssey Healthcare. P worked at hospice. She had employment agreement with non-subscriber (no worker’s compensation) that included an arbitration provision. She slipped at the home of a patient. P lived and accident occurred in El Paso. The Arbitration language provided: Panel of arbitrators would be from Dallas County. The Court compelle
GUEST-POST | Stolt-Nielsen Opens More Doors Than It Closes
By Victoria VanBuren - May 6, 2010
By S.I. Strong Although the decision in Stolt-Nielsen S.A. v. AnimalFeeds International Corp. is being read by some as signaling the end of class arbitration –not just as we know it, but in virtually all possible forms– the opinion actually goes nowhere near that far. Instead, the 5-3 opinion can be largely limited to its facts, leaving significant questions unanswered. In some regards, the decision authored by Justice Alito is clear. In answerin
GUEST-POST | Professor Stipanowich Comments on Stolt-Nielsen v. AnimalFeeds
By Victoria VanBuren - April 28, 2010
By Thomas J. Stipanowich The thrust of the majority opinion authored by Justice Alito was to shun the rationale of the plurality in the Court’s earlier decision in Green Tree Financial Corp. v. Bazzle, 539 U.S. 444 (2003)), which characterized the question of whether class arbitration as a matter of “procedure” growing out of the dispute. Instead, the majority founded its decision on Supreme Court “precedents [under the FA
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