Effective Arbitration Advocacy
Please Note: This course has already
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Date: Friday, April 28, 2000
Location: Suffolk University Law School, 120 Tremont St., Boston, MA
Time: 09:30 AM - 03:30 PM
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Arbitration and ADR services are being utilized with escalating frequency. Effective Arbitration Advocacy is designed to provide practical, timely, cutting edge advice to experienced arbitration advocates and arbitrators, as well as professionals with less exposure to the process. Program attendees will be given tools enabling them to master the arbitration process, from the drafting of an arbitration clause through proceedings to confirm, vacate and modify arbitration awards.
You will learn how arbitration works. Topics covered include how and where challenges to the arbitrability of claims are resolved, the prosecution and defense of motions to stay and compel arbitration, arbitrator selection, discovery and motion practice in arbitration; the arbitration hearing and arbitration remedies. Our distinguished panel of experts will discuss case management pitfalls, applicable rules of evidence, new arbitration rules, new procedures utilized by the American Arbitration Association, how an arbitrator's ethical obligations impact the process, appropriate and inappropriate utilization of video conferencing, arbitration briefs and how the parties control the form and length of the arbitrator's opinion and award. Our panel of experts, which includes several experienced arbitrators, welcomes your questions. You will also receive a useful volume of written materials. You will not want to miss these insights into the arbitration process.
Attend and Learn:
- What kinds of disputes are subject to arbitration under the variety of commonly utilized arbitration clauses?
- How to initiate arbitration, select a neutral, and prepare for arbitration
- New rules and policies/procedures at the American Arbitration Association on case administration
- What evidentiary standards are used during the hearing process?
- What ethical standards govern the conduct of arbitrators and how they shape the arbitration process?
- What remedies are available in arbitration ?
- The impact of requesting a short form versus a written reasoned award
- What steps must be timely taken to vacate, confirm or modify an award?
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David Alan Hoffman
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The New Law Center, Boston, MA |
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Professor Marc D. Greenbaum
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Suffolk University Law School, Boston, MA |
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Stacey L. Cushner
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Bernstein, Cushner & Kimmell, Boston |
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Carol Chandler
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Stoneman Chandler & Miller, LLP, Boston |
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Judge Gordon L. Doerfer
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Past-President of the American Judicature Society
Massachusetts Superior Court and Massachusetts Appeals Court (ret.)
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Brendan M. Hare
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Hare & Chaffin, Boston |
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Robert V. Lizza
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Holland & Knight, LLP, Boston |
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Christine L. Newhall
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American Arbitration Association, Boston |
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Jay S. Siegel
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Harvard University, Cambridge |
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John J. Spignesi
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Woburn |
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Gerald Strathmann
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American Arbitration Association, Boston |
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| S C H E D U L E / A G E N D A |
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Getting to Arbitration |
- Arbitrability and the Scope of Arbitration
- Motions to Compel Arbitration and Stay Litigation if in Court
Stacey L. Cushner, Esq. and Prof. Marc D. Greenbaum
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Interactive Panel Discussion with the American Arbitration Association, Arbitrator and Advocate |
- Case Management Pitfalls
- Case Management Tips for Advocates
- Getting Started
- Selecting a Neutral
- Pre-hearing Case management & discovery & motions
Christine L. Newhall, Vice President-Administration, John J. Spignesi, Esq. and Robert V. Lizza, Esq.
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| 12:00 |
Lunch and Ethics Discussion |
- The Federal Arbitration Act and Other New England States' Uniform Arbitration Act
- The Code of Ethics
- When Disclosure Is Appropriate
- Exercise: Ethical or Unethical Conduct?
David A. Hoffman and Gerald Strathmann
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The Hearing Process |
- Pro Se Parties
- Evidentiary Issues at the Hearing
- Video Conferencing
- Interim Awards: New AAA Rules
- Briefs: Are They Necessary?
Carol Chandler, Esq. and Brendan M. Hare, Esq.
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The Award/Remedies |
- Reasoned Awards vs. Short Form
- Remedies: Punitive Damages, Interest
- Retaining Jurisdiction
Jay S. Siegel
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Vacating, Confirming or Modifying the Award |
| Grounds for Vacating, Confirming or Modifying the Award
Honorable Gordon L. Doerfer
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| Date: |
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Friday, April 28, 2000 |
| Tuition: |
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$199; $149 for attorneys admitted since 1997. Tuition includes course book, continental breakfast & luncheon.
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Space is limited. Registrations at the door are welcome, but please register in advance to reserve a seat and your written course materials or call to confirm space availability.
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Any cancellations received 24 hours prior to the program will be granted a refund, minus a $15.00 charge. If you cannot attend, you can send a substitute, otherwise you will receive the written course materials.
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Suffolk University Law School, 120 Tremont St., Boston, MA
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Approved for CLE Credit in RI, NH, VT & NY.
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If you have special needs addressed by the Americans with Disabilities Act, please notify us as soon as possible.
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