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Olympics and the World of ADR
by Jeffrey G. Benz, Sports Arbitrator & Mediator

Jeffrey G. Benz of the Agency of Dispute Resolution, brings his background as a former U.S. Olympic Committee General Counsel and Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) arbitrator, to offer insights on the intersection of dispute resolution and the sports industry, particularly with the commencement of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Jeff Benz has extensive, overarching and hands-on experience as a litigator, in house counsel, transactional attorney, outside counsel, and ADR neutral spanning nearly two decades of practice. 

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Jul302012

Is There Such a Thing as ODR (Olympic Dispute Resolution)?

Date07.30.2012

I would like to kick off this blog space with a brief run down of Olympic Dispute Resolution, or what I would like to call ODR. I just returned to LA from London having taught a Pepperdine University School of Law course with co-professor Maureen Weston on this very topic, on the eve of the Games. With this series, I aim to provide some approachable background to what everyone is seeing in the news in the field of ODR as well as to provide some insights that might not otherwise be apparent.

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