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Armed conflict does not remain confined to the immediate arena in which it arises. Its effects travel quickly into commerce, infrastructure, logistics, finance, and daily economic life. It enters contracts, disrupts supply chains, alters project schedules, increases transport risk, unsettles pricing assumptions, and places pressure on payment flows, insurance arrangements, and long-term commercial relationships. In […]
Welcome back to Mediation Aspects of SB940 in California, a series providing updates on Business and Professions Code 6173, which created a voluntary certification program for mediators and other alternative dispute resolution (ADR) professionals in California. The new program “aims to promote adherence to ethical standards for ADR services and establish consumer protection mechanisms.” This […]
Oral Agreement to Settlement Terms in Mediation Enforced A former employee, represented by counsel, participated by Zoom in a mediation before a federal magistrate judge. The parties reached a settlement agreement and the magistrate judge recited the essential terms of the agreement, which was recorded, including: payment by the employer to the employee within approximately […]
Seasoned mediators might imagine the next generation of advocates and dispute resolution practitioners – the vast majority who have grown up with the internet and devices at their fingertips – might unabashedly advocate for embedding AI into their dispute resolution practice. We sat down with two third-year law students at the Ohio State University Moritz […]
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Norman Feit was formerly global head of Litigation and Regulatory Proceedings at Goldman Sachs. He previously spent a decade practicing litigation with Sullivan & Cromwell after a Second Circuit clerkship. He now teaches as an Adjunct Professor at Fordham Law School and provides consulting and advisory services, including as a neutral, at Feit Services LLC. He is a member of the AAA Commercial & Consumer Arbitration Panels, the AAA Mediation Roster, and the AAA Securities Advisory Committee.
Norman Feit was formerly global head of Litigation and Regulatory Proceedings at Goldman Sachs. He previously spent a decade practicing litigation with Sullivan & Cromwell after a Second Circuit clerkship. He now teaches as an Adjunct Professor at Fordham Law School and provides consulting and advisory services, including as a neutral, at Feit Services LLC. He is a member of the AAA Commercial & Consumer Arbitration Panels, the AAA Mediation Roster, and the AAA Securities Advisory Committee.
Joan Stearns Johnsen, FCIArb, CEDR Accredited, IMI Certified has over thirty years of experience resolving disputes as an arbitrator and mediator. Prior to becoming a neutral, Joan was, Associate General Counsel for the Commodity Exchange, Inc., (now a designated market of the CME Group), Assistant Counsel for Smith Barney, Inc. (now Morgan Stanley) both in New York city, and as an enforcement attorney for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in Washington, D.C. Joan has a diverse practice with particular expertise in financial and banking, entertainment, employment, and general commercial disputes. Joan teaches negotiation, mediation, and arbitration at the University of Florida Levin College of Law where she is also the Director of the Law School’s Institute for Dispute Resolution.
Joan is on the arbitration and mediation panels of the American Arbitration Association, FINRA, The International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution, (“CPR”), the National Futures Association, the New York Supreme Court, Commercial Division, NAM, The American Health Law Association, and Resolute Systems. Joan is a frequent speaker and trainer on best practices in negotiation, mediation, and arbitration and has been quoted on NPR and CBS radio. Among those for whom she has conducted trainings is The American Trucking Associations, the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution, the US Commerce Department, Trade Representative’s Office, and the National Council of State Boards of Nursing.
Joan also is active in the Dispute Resolution Community. In addition to serving on the Editorial Board of the AAA’s Mediation Magazine, she is a past Chair of the ABA’s Section of Dispute Resolution, on the Counsel of CPR, Senior Vice Chair of the Mediation Committee of the International Bar Association, and a Board Member of the Miami International Arbitration Society and the AAA’s Financial Advisory Committee. Joan is the 2022 recipient of the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (“CPR”) James P. Groton award for Outstanding Leadership in Dispute Prevention..
Joan Stearns Johnsen, FCIArb, CEDR Accredited, IMI Certified has over thirty years of experience resolving disputes as an arbitrator and mediator. Prior to becoming a neutral, Joan was, Associate General Counsel for the Commodity Exchange, Inc., (now a designated market of the CME Group), Assistant Counsel for Smith Barney, Inc. (now Morgan Stanley) both in New York city, and as an enforcement attorney for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in Washington, D.C. Joan has a diverse practice with particular expertise in financial and banking, entertainment, employment, and general commercial disputes. Joan teaches negotiation, mediation, and arbitration at the University of Florida Levin College of Law where she is also the Director of the Law School’s Institute for Dispute Resolution.
Joan is on the arbitration and mediation panels of the American Arbitration Association, FINRA, The International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution, (“CPR”), the National Futures Association, the New York Supreme Court, Commercial Division, NAM, The American Health Law Association, and Resolute Systems. Joan is a frequent speaker and trainer on best practices in negotiation, mediation, and arbitration and has been quoted on NPR and CBS radio. Among those for whom she has conducted trainings is The American Trucking Associations, the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution, the US Commerce Department, Trade Representative’s Office, and the National Council of State Boards of Nursing.
Joan also is active in the Dispute Resolution Community. In addition to serving on the Editorial Board of the AAA’s Mediation Magazine, she is a past Chair of the ABA’s Section of Dispute Resolution, on the Counsel of CPR, Senior Vice Chair of the Mediation Committee of the International Bar Association, and a Board Member of the Miami International Arbitration Society and the AAA’s Financial Advisory Committee. Joan is the 2022 recipient of the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (“CPR”) James P. Groton award for Outstanding Leadership in Dispute Prevention.
Mr. Feliu is a long-time panelist on American Arbitration Association’s Employment Disputes, Large, Complex Commercial, Class Action, and is on its Master Mediator Panel. He has been appointed to serve as arbitrator in over 650 employment and commercial cases over his long career.
Mr. Feliu is the Editor-in-Chief of the leading treatise in the employment dispute resolution area, ADR in Employment Law (Bloomberg/BNA 2015, 2017 Supplement), and is a frequent lecturer and trainer on employment and commercial arbitration and mediation topics. Mr. Feliu is a former Chair of the Labor & Employment Law Section of the New York State Bar Association and, for many years, was the co-Chair of its Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee. Mr. Feliu is a Fellow and on the Board of the College of Commercial Arbitrators, as well as a Fellow with the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. He has also served as the EEO Officer for the Port of New York and New Jersey since 2006.
Mr. Feliu is a graduate of Columbia College and Columbia Law School.
Mr. Feliu is a long-time panelist on American Arbitration Association’s Employment Disputes, Large, Complex Commercial, Class Action, and is on its Master Mediator Panel. He has been appointed to serve as arbitrator in over 650 employment and commercial cases over his long career.
Mr. Feliu is the Editor-in-Chief of the leading treatise in the employment dispute resolution area, ADR in Employment Law (Bloomberg/BNA 2015, 2017 Supplement), and is a frequent lecturer and trainer on employment and commercial arbitration and mediation topics. Mr. Feliu is a former Chair of the Labor & Employment Law Section of the New York State Bar Association and, for many years, was the co-Chair of its Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee. Mr. Feliu is a Fellow and on the Board of the College of Commercial Arbitrators, as well as a Fellow with the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. He has also served as the EEO Officer for the Port of New York and New Jersey since 2006.
Mr. Feliu is a graduate of Columbia College and Columbia Law School.
Lawrence H. Kolin, Esq., serves on the national AAA Commercial Panels for Mediation and Arbitration and as Executive Council Member Emeritus of The Florida Bar ADR Section. Lawrence is a federal court and Supreme Court of Florida Certified Circuit-Civil and Appellate Mediator and Qualified Arbitrator based in Orlando, Florida, who maintains a full-time practice as a neutral. He is the founding Chair of the Orange County Bar Association ADR Committee and authors a top-rated alternative dispute resolution blog at OrlandoMediator.blogspot.com.
Lawrence H. Kolin, Esq., serves on the national AAA Commercial Panels for Mediation and Arbitration and as Executive Council Member Emeritus of The Florida Bar ADR Section. Lawrence is a federal court and Supreme Court of Florida Certified Circuit-Civil and Appellate Mediator and Qualified Arbitrator based in Orlando, Florida, who maintains a full-time practice as a neutral. He is the founding Chair of the Orange County Bar Association ADR Committee and authors a top-rated alternative dispute resolution blog at OrlandoMediator.blogspot.com.
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