Passing of Roger Wolf
I am writing to share the news that Roger Wolf, a professor and pioneer of ADR in Maryland, passed away on Saturday, December 30, 2017.
Risk Taking
Ben Davis: Fun with Technology, Arbitration Clauses and a Mock International Commercial Arbitration
As has been noted by Professor Stacie Strong, people should be very careful about drafting arbitration clauses. They can lead to many complications in just getting the arbitration started.
Mosten and Scully’s New Book on Unbundled Legal Services
Unbundling goes by many names, including “limited scope legal services.” Lawyers provide specified services to clients rather than “full service” representation. It’s like ordering food à la carte instead of a fixed, seven-course meal.
Stone Soup: Takeaways from new Hampshire Mediation Training
Recently, Susan Yates and I conducted mediation trainings on behalf of the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire, the New Hampshire Judicial Branch Office of Mediation and Arbitration, and the University of New Hampshire, School of Law.
Gorillas in the mist
Counting passes of a basketball. Sounds easy, doesn’t it? But there is a famous experiment which shows that many people get so engrossed in a simple task such as counting passes by a group of basketball players that they completely fail to notice the guy in the gorilla suit who walks through the room.
