My first job after law school was as an assistant district attorney in Massachusetts. In my first six months on the job, I probably tried more than 50 cases to verdict. However, for each case I tried, ...

Originally published in Franchise Law Journal, Volume 31, Number 1, Summer 2011. Alternative dispute resolution is often touted as a necessity in the American legal system to avoid the high monetary, ...

Mediation is a substantially different approach to resolving disputes from litigation or even arbitration. Many of the skills that may work for an attorney in litigation are generally not effective in ...

Large public infrastructure projects typically involve several stakeholders and a complex array of contracts and subcontracts. A thoughtful approach to the negotiation and drafting of contractual ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Mediation and arbitration can be effective legal tools for ...

In a move designed to increase the shipping community’s awareness and use of mediation techniques in resolving disputes, BIMCO has developed a Standard Dispute Resolution Clause by incorporating a ...

The Mediation (Civil and Commercial Disputes) Bill has been published in the Gazette and presented to Parliament last month (July 2025). Although mediation has been used in Sri Lanka since 1989 for ...

New Delhi: India's small businesses and startups have started adopting mediation in the dispute resolution clauses included in their contracts, Union law and justice minister Arjun Ram Meghwal said.

A new edition of BIMCO’s Dispute Resolution Clause has been published. New wording has been added to the US law, New York arbitration option to ensure that non-maritime contracts (such as shipbuilding ...

(MENAFN- Live Mint) New Delhi: Public sector undertakings (PSUs) are beginning to insert mediation clauses in their contracts, in a shift away from their usual reliance on arbitration, as they look ...