Want to launch or grow your mediation career? Develop your skills at a unique, in-person civil mediation training program developed and led by Joe Murphey, an experienced mediator who has mediated more than 3,000 cases. Rex…
more
/ Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), Law Practice Products & Services
In a world grappling with the aftermath of COVID-19, the landscape of dispute resolution has undergone profound changes. As a mediator with Miles Mediation & Arbitration and the founder of FourthParty, a technology platform…
more
/ Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), Law Practice Products & Services
Even if they involve similar facts or injuries, no two medical malpractice cases are alike. Juries are laypeople who must consider testimony from medical experts and other witnesses and determine credibility and competence…
more
/ Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), Health, Professional Malpractice
As an attorney and mediator who specializes in professional liability cases and issues affecting lawyers and their firms, I’ve learned that while the fact patterns and circumstances of every case are different, even the best…
more
/ Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), Business Torts, Law Practice Products & Services, Professional Malpractice
A successful mediation hinges not only on the mediator’s skill during the mediation session but also on preparation and work with counsel beforehand. Effective pre-mediation strategies are crucial in laying the groundwork for a…
more
/ Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), Civil Procedure
Construction law cases can involve a broad variety of issues, including breach of contract claims, construction delays, structural deficiencies/construction defect claims, environmental issues, and regulatory claims, among…
more
/ Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), Civil Procedure, Commercial Law & Contracts, Construction Law
If you’ve ever served as an executor, you may already know how complicated, stressful, and time-consuming the process can be. In fact, according to a recent study, the average estate takes the executor about 570 hours to settle…
more
/ Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), Family Law, Wills, Trusts, & Estate Planning
You’re representing a client in a case that is going to arbitration. You may already have a potential arbitrator (or more than one) in mind, but before you move forward with scheduling the arbitration, it’s smart to consider the…
more
/ Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), Law Practice Products & Services
It was a bright, spring morning in early May 1864. The kind of morning that would typically bring gentle breezes and the mating calls of songbirds drifting up from the rolling hills of the Shenandoah Valley. But on this fateful…
more
/ Civil Procedure, Law Practice Products & Services
You may recall Shakespeare’s line from Henry VI, Part 2, Act IV, Scene 2, spoken by the noted legal scholar, Dick the Butcher, “the first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.” If we’re talking about fixing arbitration,…
more
/ Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), Commercial Law & Contracts
Plaintiff’s lawyer? Defense counsel? Many attorneys in private practice wind up doing some of both. In fact, many highly successful plaintiffs’ attorneys began their careers at insurance defense firms…
more
/ Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), Insurance, Personal Injury
While the fact pattern of every medical malpractice case may be different, these cases often feature complicated medical issues, heightened emotions, and millions, even tens of millions, of dollars in claimed damages. An…
more
/ Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), Health, Professional Malpractice
Would you go to trial without preparing? Of course, you wouldn’t. As the old saying goes: “failing to prepare is preparing to fail.” The same can be said for mediation. Failing to prepare for mediation will make mediation…
more
/ Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), Civil Procedure
As a mediator of employment and multi-party civil disputes, I frequently see cases that should settle but the gears get stuck. Not because the right amount of money isn’t on the table. Not because the requisite confidentiality…
more
/ Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), Civil Procedure, Civil Remedies, Law Practice Products & Services
Last year, Missouri passed Senate Bill 103, which limits the scope of covenants not to compete, or restrictive covenants, between the “owner” of a business and the business itself should the relationship between the owner and…
more
/ Administrative Law, Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), Commercial Law & Contracts, Labor & Employment Law
