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GUEST-POST | Who Pays the Hospital-Medical Staff Standing Neutral?

By Holly Hayes - April 20, 2012

By Richard J. Webb, Esq. This is a follow-up to a four part series of posts at the Healthcare Neutral ADR Blog on the hospital-medical staff standing neutral. See Part I, Part II, Part III, and Part IV. This concept requires a hospital and its organized medical staff to select a neutral expert in advance of any dispute, who will stand ready to assist the parties as problems arise, with the aim of resolving conflicts quickly and efficiently. It is

24th Annual Summer Professional Skills Program in Dispute Resolution | June 23-25, 2011

By Victoria VanBuren - May 19, 2011

Looking for a summer course in dispute resolution? Look no more! the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution will be hosting its 24th Annual Professional Skills Program on June 23-25, 2011 in Malibu, California. Don Philbin, our friend and long time contributor to this blog and Doug Noll will be presenting “Preventing Bad Settlement Decisions and Impasse Using Brain Science, Game Theory, Animated Communication, and Micro-Interventions.” The descr

Article | Revelation and Reaction: The Struggle to Shape American Arbitration

By Beth Graham - January 28, 2011

Last week, Thomas J. Stipanowich, William H. Webster Chair in Dispute Resolution and Professor of Law at Pepperdine School of Law, and Academic Director of the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, was the keynote speaker at Fordham Law School’s Fifth Annual Alternative Dispute Resolution Symposium. At the Symposium, Professor Stipanowich presented a paper entitled “Revelation and Reaction: The Struggle to Shape American Arbitration.” The pape

2010 Arbitration and Mediation Guest-Bloggers at Disputing

By Beth Graham - December 29, 2010

During 2010, Disputing was honored to post contributions from several law professors and practitioners. Some wrote guest-posts, others submitted comments via e-mail, and yet others alerted us of important developments in the ADR area. We would like to thank our blog contributors for improving Disputing‘s legal scholarship! If you are interested in submitting materials for Disputing, please e-mail us at: beth@karlbayer.com. Check out our 201

GUEST-POST | More Interest in Empirical Data Weighing on Case Evaluations

By Beth Graham - September 29, 2010

by Don Philbin Earlier this month, I was pleased to be the invited luncheon speaker for the Advanced Texas Administrative Law Seminar in Austin. Of course, I knew that my job was to discuss advanced decision analysis and the analytical and graphical illustration tools that I’ve been working on to help communicate such case analyses. What I didn’t know was that I would be followed by an excellent presentation that would drill into appe

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

Mediation in Healthcare: Interview with Healthcare Neutral Richard Webb

By Victoria VanBuren - January 22, 2010

by Holly Hayes I recently conducted a Q & A via email with Richard J. Webb (pictured left) who writes the Healthcare Neutral Blog. Mr. Webb is a graduate of Yale University (B.A., cum laude, 1975) and the Duke University School of Law (J.D. 1978). His additional alternative dispute resolution training currently amounts to 177 hours of classroom time, including 60 hours of advanced mediation courses at the Straus Institute for Dispute Resoluti

ABA – CLE on July 14 | Deal or No Deal: Improving the Odds of Successful Mediation

By Victoria VanBuren - June 30, 2009

Need CLE Credits? Mark your calendars! The American Bar Association Section of Litigation will hold a live teleconference and webcast on July 14, 2009 titled “Deal or No Deal: Improving the Odds of Successful Mediation.” Reinsurance and Insurance expert Katherine Billingham from KB ReSolutions, Inc. and Randall Kiser from DecisionSet will present at the event. Randall’s article Lets Not Make a Deal: An Empirical Study of Decisio

Victoria Pynchon and the Power of Persuasion

By Victoria VanBuren - May 26, 2009

During this Memorial Day holiday, I came across a very interesting article by Victoria Pynchon, a graduate of the prestigious Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution. The piece is a well-written personal anecdote about her volunteer work during the past U.S. presidential campaign. The lesson? you don’t have to be persuasive to persuade. Here is an excerpt: Funny, but I wasn’t really trying to convince her of anything. We were women ta