Arbitration & Mediation

Council for Litigation Management Conference in Phoenix, Arizona

By Christopher B. Hopkins, Esq.

A short plug for the Council for Litigation Management Conference being held this week in Phoenix. CLM is a non-profit organization generally tailored to corporate general counsel, outside attorney's, and insurance professionals. This is not necessarily a "defense lawyers" conference since all of the aforementioned groups often have corporate plaintiff cases. Instead, the focus is on claims management, legal invoice review and payment, and ethics -- the organization focuses on the interaction between corporations and their outside counsel, not the validity of claims nor techniques for defense strategies. It's more about a civil, ethical procedure. More information can be obtained here.

There is nothing definitively relating to arbitration or ADR on the schedule (unless you include the session about how legal bills are reviewed and paid) however arbitration should come up in some of the individual talks. I am a Florida state chair, so please come say hello if you are going.

Full post as published by Florida Arbitration Law on March 12, 2009 (boomark / email).