Introducing Court-annexed Arbitration
Introducing Court-annexed Arbitration

Author: Elizabeth S. Rolph

Publisher:

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13:

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Court-annexed arbitration is a court-run dispute resolution process to which cases that meet some specified criteria are involuntarily assigned. Arbitrators hear the case and render awards that are not binding, however, as a litigant may always request a trial. In the last decade, court-annexed arbitration has gained popularity as a means of handling small civil cases. Using in-depth analysis of arbitration in several courts, and survey results from a remaining group of courts, this report summarizes the variety of program design alternatives, assesses the probable implications of choosing one set of alternatives over another, and discusses methods that courts adopting arbitration might use to evaluate its effectiveness.

Model Rules of Professional Conduct
Model Rules of Professional Conduct

Author: American Bar Association. House of Delegates

Publisher: American Bar Association

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9781590318737

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The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.

Arbitrating High-stakes Cases
Arbitrating High-stakes Cases

Author: Edgar Allan Lind

Publisher:

Published: 1990-01-01

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 9780833010292

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Court-annexed arbitration, which requires the referral of civil cases to nonbinding arbitration before a lawyer-arbitrator, has become an increasingly common feature of civil procedure, though it has been largely confined to state court programs for small tort cases. In the past decade, however, arbitration procedures have increasingly been used in the federal district courts, which tend to apply such procedures to much larger cases and to contract cases as well as torts. This report describes a four-year study of court-annexed arbitration in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina. The study examined the efficacy of court-annexed arbitration in high-stakes federal tort and contract cases. The study found the program had few negative effects and many positive ones, including improved access to the justice system, reduction of private litigation costs, and favorable reactions by both litigants and attorneys. The success of the arbitration program in the Middle District of North Carolina shows that alternative dispute resolution can produce benefits for disputants in large-stakes cases.

International Arbitration
International Arbitration

Author: Stephen M. Schwebel

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-01-23

Total Pages: 355

ISBN-13: 0521768020

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Considers the vitality of the international arbitral process through an updated examination of three salient problems.

Civil Trials Bench Book
Civil Trials Bench Book

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Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages:

ISBN-13:

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This book provides guidance for judicial officer in the conduct of civil proceedings, from preliminary matters to the conduct of final proceedings and the assessment of damages and costs. It contains concise statements of relevant legal principles, references to legislation, sample orders for judicial official to use where suitable and checklists applicable to various kinds of issues that arise in the course of managing and conducting civil litigation.

Lake Effect
Lake Effect

Author: Bernadette Colicchio Dawson

Publisher:

Published: 2021-11-08

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781956271027

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Besides being the title of this book, Lake Effect is a term that everyone in Northeast Ohio knows. It happens when frigid air from Canada dips south, picks up water from Lake Erie, freezes it at high altitude, and then, to the delight of kids hoping for school cancellations, dumps it in the form of snow as soon as it reaches the shoreline in Ashtabula, Ohio. Lake Effect, the book, touches upon the psychological and emotional impact of growing up in Ashtabula, a blue-collar town with a huge port, major chemical and manufacturing plants, a culturally diverse population, and a spider web of railroad tracks feeding into ships in the harbor. Told in fifty-eight vignettes through the eyes of an Italian American girl and a Finnish American boy (at a time when weddings between people of those crosstown cultures were considered mixed marriages), the book offers a glimpse into small-town America in the 1950s and 1960s. As beneficiaries of the work ethic of their parents and immigrant grandparents, the authors pay tribute to family and friends who provided example and advice (sometimes unheeded) during their coming of age years.