Category Archives: News-Articles

With the coming of the information age and the increasing reliance on information technology, consumers have become increasingly savvy in how they research and shop for good and services. Legal services are no longer an exception to that trend. Today’s potential clients searching for lawyers as well as legal information on the internet are not only beneficiaries of easier access …

The post The Value of Dispute Resolution Process Assessments: Massachusetts Lawyers Journal Article by Michael Zeytoonian appeared first on Dispute Resolution Counsel.

Continue reading →

The state that was “First in Flight”, and more recently a key swing state in the 2016 Presidential election, hopes to also be a pivotal state in the increasing use of Collaborative Law in non-divorce or “civil” disputes. Some of its lawyers have just completed its second two-day training in civil, non-family disputes and the state bar association is already …

The post North Carolina makes the Collaborative Law pivot appeared first on Dispute Resolution Counsel.

Continue reading →

Early Dispute Resolution and specifically Collaborative Law were as the focus of the first part of a three-part series held at the Massachusetts Bar Association office in Boston on November 14, 2016. The series is entitled “Mediation & Arbitration Essentials” and is being co-sponsored jointly by the MBA’s Young Lawyers Division and Dispute Resolution Section. Samuel Segal, Chairman of the …

The post MBA Panel focuses on Early Dispute Resolution and Collaborative Law appeared first on Dispute Resolution Counsel.

Continue reading →

The Annual ADR (alternative dispute resolution) and the Law Conference, held on September 23 at the MCLE (Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education) office in Boston, may have been called ADR for the last time.  Today’s trends of dispute resolution include the steady rise of mediation, now considered the dispute resolution process of choice, the continued use of arbitration in many business …

The post Early Dispute Resolution – an Emerging Trend – Focus of MCLE Conference appeared first on Dispute Resolution Counsel.

Continue reading →

The Annual ADR (alternative dispute resolution) and the Law Conference, held on September 23 at the MCLE (Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education) office in Boston, may have been called ADR for the last time.  Today’s trends of dispute resolution include the steady rise of mediation, now considered the dispute resolution process of choice, the continued use of arbitration in many business …

The post Early Dispute Resolution – an Emerging Trend – Focus of MCLE Conference appeared first on Dispute Resolution Counsel.

Continue reading →

Most people who are in a dispute think about mediation or arbitration as alternatives to lawsuits and litigation. But there are several other process choices that people have for how to resolve their disputes. That critical choice of which process to use is often the most important choice people make in resolving their legal issue. Among these other choices are …

The post Collaborative law, planned early negotiations focus of MBA ADR panel appeared first on Dispute Resolution Counsel.

Continue reading →

For some of the students in Professor Erika Gray’s Mediation course at Boston College Law School, the class on April 25 was the last class of their law school career. For others, the last class of the year. But that didn’t stop many of the class from engaging in an active discussion about mediation and its use in resolving disputes, …

The post MBA ADR committee weighs in on mediation at BC law appeared first on Dispute Resolution Counsel.

Continue reading →