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GUEST-POST | eDiscovery Update: Special Masters and eMediation
By Victoria VanBuren - July 28, 2010
By Peter S. Vogel Special Masters can help Judges and parties in eDiscovery disputes and also reduce the cost of litigation. Also managing eDiscovery can be improved by using eMediators who can help simply eDiscovery disputes and reduce motion practice. My recent article in the Texas Lawyer discusses some of the benefits of eMediation and Special Masters in eDiscovery. Over the past 20 years I have served as a Mediator and Special Master in compu
Just Published: “Meaningful Use” Regulation for Electronic Health Records
By Holly Hayes - July 14, 2010
by Holly Hayes The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) published on July 13, a summary of the final regulations on “meaningful use” of electronic health records (EHR). The full, final regulation is 864 pages and can be found here. The regulation divides the elements required for “meaningful use” into two groups: first, a set of core objectives that are an essential starting point for meaningful use of EHRs and, second, a menu of ad
The International Bar Association Adopts New Rules on the Taking of Evidence in International Arbitration
By Victoria VanBuren - June 7, 2010
The International Bar Association (IBA) has approved a new version of its Rules on the Taking of Evidence in International Arbitration. The revised version (discussed here) was approved with minor amendments. The revised Rules will apply to all arbitrations in which the parties agree to apply the IBA Rules after May 29, 2010. Among the key updates and revisions are the following: An obligation on the tribunal to consult the parties at the earlies
Operations Management Approach to Conflict in Organizations
By Holly Hayes - May 7, 2010
By Holly Hayes Last week, I had the opportunity to attend the University of Texas “Innovation in Health Care Delivery Systems: Maintaining Quality and Reducing Costs Through Management and Information Technology”. One breakout session featured Donde Plowman, Ph.d., Business Professor and Department Head from the University of Tennessee. She has recently undertaken a study to increase the relevance of health services research to leader
Texas Doctor Proposes Physician-Led Solution to Cut Health Care Costs
By Victoria VanBuren - March 8, 2010
By Holly Hayes The New York Times posted last week an interview with Dr. Howard Brody (pictured left), professor of family medicine and director of the Institute for the Medical Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, discussing a proposal for health care reform involving physicians. Physicians, Dr. Brody says, are not “innocent bystanders” to increasing health care costs but have made little effort to limit future medi
ABA Section of Intellectual Property | Complex Patent Suits: The Use of Special Masters for Claim Construction
By Victoria VanBuren - February 18, 2010
The following is an excerpt from “Complex Patent Suits: The Use of Special Masters for Claim Construction” by Neil A. Smith published at Landslide by the ABA Section of Intellectual Property Law. When a complex patent infringement case arises, it can be in the client’s or the court’s best interest to bring in an expert on patent law and technology—as a special master—to assist the judge. Special masters can provide value to all partie
Mediate.com Receives Prestigious American Bar Association (ABA) Award
By Victoria VanBuren - February 1, 2010
Please join us in congratulating Mediate.com for their recent ABA Award. As readers of this blog may know, Disputing is a Mediate.com Featured Blog. Mediate.com Receives Prestigious American Bar Association (ABA) Award Eugene, Oregon – Mediate.com, the leading mediation web site in the world, has received the 2010 American Bar Association (ABA) Lawyer as Problem Solver Award. The award is for the use of “legal skills in creative, innovative
GUEST-POST: Creative Mediation for IT Dispute
By Victoria VanBuren - August 12, 2009
By Peter S. Vogel After receiving a Temporary Restraining Order (“TRO”) the Judge ordered a mediation conference between the plaintiff software licensor and their customer in Alabama. The software in dispute was a specialized tax website that the plaintiff had spent many years developing, and after defendant abruptly terminated the license the plaintiff was shocked that the defendant had a competing website providing specialized tax s
Apple and Psystar Agree to Private Mediation
By Karl Bayer - October 18, 2008
Apple and Psystar have agreed to a private ADR session to attempt a resolution to the ongoing lawsuit filed by Apple. It appears they opted out of the court-provided ADR options for a private mediation service. Psystar is a Florida corporation that has received some level of attention over a recent website that sold custom-built computers with Apple’s OS X operating system installed. Such setups, PCs running Macintosh operating systems, are
iPhones, Apple and Cisco
By Rob Hargrove - January 11, 2007
We are big Macintosh evangelists around here. I’ve used a Mac in my personal life since 1990, and Karl has used them here at the office as long as I can remember. For a small firm like ours they make total sense, since they do not break and allow technical amateurs like us to run our own servers, website, blog, email, etc. So, needless to say, Karl and I were both extremely excited when Steve Jobs and Apple announced the iPhone earlier this
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