This will be my first trip to Brazil – I will be honored to share the podium with a group of distinguished lawyers and judges in Sao Paulo for a series of discussions related to online dispute resolution and the justice system. The “Day With” will be followed by a Master Class that I will teach with Julia and Ana Goncalves, and then I’ll deliver the closing keynote address at a conference in Rio.
On Friday, Oct. 19, I will participate in a discussion/meeting with Members of the Honourable Societies of the Inner Temple and Middle Temple. The ABA is hosting the event at their offices in DC, and I have been asked to talk about the status of online dispute resolution and the courts in the US.
On Wednesday, Oct. 17, the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution will host a “human library” event in celebration of Mediation Week 2018. From 5pm until 7pm, at the ABA offices on Connecticut Avenue, NW, in DC, I will join nine colleagues to discuss our experiences as third parties working in the field of dispute engagement. The brochure for the event can be found here: ABA Mediation Week
At the 2018 conference in Pittsburgh I announced the availability of the comments related to the ACR/ABA/AAA Model Standards for Mediators. Soon after the conference, the comments will be posted on the ACR web site, but for the moment they can be found via a link to handouts for the ODR Ethics panel in the ACR conference schedule, and here: STANDARDS WITH COMMENTS.
At the panel on Thursday afternoon, I joined colleagues Colin Rule and Jason Gershowitz to talk about the impact of technology on mediator ethics. The Power Point handout for my talk can be found here: Hand Out, and notes for my comments can be found here: Technology and Mediator Ethics Comments.
