Mediation: An alternative to the backed-up courts

CPR Speaks BlogThis morning the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari and agreed to hear in its next Term the international arbitration case of GE Energy Power Conversion France SAS v. Outokumpu...

Originally published in the Oregon State Bar Bulletin (November 2009). Republished with permission.Unable to sleep one night after a particularly arduous, frustrating, and contentious mediation (though the case settled), I...

There is an old engineering joke about the proverbial glass. Optimists see the glass as half full; pessimists see the glass as half empty; engineers ask “Who designed that glass?”...