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MCLE | Alternative Dispute Resolution Course 2011
By Beth Graham - December 16, 2010
Mark your calendars! The Texas Bar CLE presents the Alternative Dispute Resolution Course 2011, Tactical Interventions in Mediation: Preventing Bad Settlement Decisions and Impasse Minute By Minute, cosponsored by The Alternative Dispute Resolution Section of the State Bar of Texas. The live conference will take place in Houston on January 28, 2011. A video conference will be available in San Antonio on March 4, 2011. Discussion topics will inclu
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
23rd Annual Advanced Evidence and Discovery Course | San Antonio, May 20-21
By Victoria VanBuren - April 15, 2010
Mark your Calendars! The Texas Bar CLE presents the 23rd Annual Advanced Evidence and Discovery course, co-sponsored by the Litigation Section of the State Bar of Texas. The live conference will take place in San Antonio on May 20-21. Video conference will be available in Dallas on June 24-25 and Houston on July 8-9. This course will provide discussions on the following topics: • The Practice of Law in the Information Age: How to Survive and Flou
State Bar of Texas: Alternative Dispute Resolution Section
By Victoria VanBuren - August 11, 2009
Please join Disputing in welcoming the new leadership (as of July 1, 2009) of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Section of the State Bar of Texas : John Allen Chalk, Sr., Chair Wendy Trachte-Huber and Stephen Huber, co-editors of the Alternative Resolutions newsletter Susan Schultz, Chair Elect Regina Giovannini, Treasurer Professor Joe Cope, Secretary John K. Boyce, III, Immediate Past Chair Susan Perin, Council Member, Houston Honorable Anne A
GUEST-POST: The Psychology of Overconfidence and Mediation
By Victoria VanBuren - July 23, 2009
By Don Philbin In this week’s The New Yorker, one of my favorite writers explores how “optimistic overconfidence” contributed to the quick downfall of the mighty Bear Stearns. Malcolm Gladwell, author of Blink, The Tipping Point, and Outliers, chronicles the meteoric rise of Jimmy Cayne, copier salesman turned professional bridge player turned investment banker, to the top of Bear Stearns. A student of history, Gladwell uses the British-led invas
New Arbitration Paper
By Rob Hargrove - May 28, 2008
Karl recently presented a new paper on discovery in arbitration proceedings at the State Bar’s Advanced Evidence and Discovery Course in Houston and San Antonio. Since we get lots of requests for these papers, we’ve now created a permanent page for all of them on our main website. Help yourself. Remember, though, that the law changes quickly, and parts of even the most recent papers are outdated and, in some cases, flat out wrong. By
Texas Supreme Court Update
By Rob Hargrove - February 9, 2007
The Texas Supreme Court handed down five opinions this morning. None is about arbitration, so we’ll give them short shrift here. City of San Antonio v. TPLP Office Park Properties is a discussion of the City of San Antonio’s potential police power to close access to certain roadways in order to address residents’ complaints about commercial traffic in their neighborhood. Cause No. 04-1130. In Norris v. Thomas, a five-justice maj
Supreme Court Denies Review of Ayala case
By Rob Hargrove - October 27, 2006
More than a year ago now, guest blogger Rick Freeman wrote about an arbitration decision out of San Antonio where a trial court refused to compel arbitration on the basis that the high cost of arbitration made the agreement to arbitrate unconscionable. This morning, the Texas Supreme Court denied the petition for review in that case, leaving the San Antonio opinion good law, for now at least. What does this mean for state of cost-based unconscion
Friday, March 3, 2006
By Rob Hargrove - March 8, 2006
Last Friday, the Texas Supreme Court issued two opinions, neither of which has anything to do with the law of arbitration. The first opinion discusses whether or not a city can be estopped from enforcing a zoning ordinance when its building official, unaware of the ordinance, mistakenly issued a permit which would have allowed construction in violation of the ordinance. In this case, and in all but “exceptional” cases according to the
ARBITRATION LEGITIMACY — UNCONSCIONABILITY
By Rick Freeman - September 19, 2005
Guest blogger Rick Freeman contributes commentary about a recent San Antonio Court of Appeals opinion about the enforceability of arbitration clauses. In my last article I discussed the need for fairness in arbitration agreements. Failure to have fair terms in the arbitration agreement or failure to provide a fair arbitration proceeding will result in a perceived lack of legitimacy in the arbitration result. If arbitration results are not perceiv
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