In Part 2, host Rich Silberberg once again welcomes Jeff Zaino, Vice President of the American Arbitration Association’s Commercial Division, and Virginia Corvey, Director of Operations at JAMS, to dive deeper into user feedback regarding arbitrator performance and its impact upon best practices in commercial arbitration. Building on the discussion in Part 1, this episode explores user feedback about arbitrators’ handling of specific case management issues and lessons learned, …
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Select Your Decision Maker! (Part II)
The Aardvark* commented in the initial installment of its “Select Your Decision Maker” post that the principal advantage of commercial arbitration is party autonomy and self-determination, as best illustrated by the disputants’ ability to select the person who will hear and decide their dispute. As part of its continuing “debunkery” mission to set the record straight about the advantages that commercial arbitration offers over litigation, the Aardvark asks and answers the following two …
Select Your Dispute Decision-Maker!
Commercial arbitration offers disputants distinct advantages that are not available in court. The principal one is party autonomy and self-determination. Nothing illustrates that concept better than the disputants’ ability in commercial arbitration to select the person who will hear and decide their dispute. Litigants who resort to the courts for dispute resolution cannot select the judge who will hear the action. Judges are generally randomly selected upon the filing of the …
CCA Fellows Know About Mockingbirds and Other important Things
Fellows of the College of Commercial Arbitrators are knowledgeable and highly skilled, and that arbitration parties and their advocates routinely entrust College Fellows with their most important disputes. A recent public report of an arbitration award issued by College Fellow Richard H. Silberberg provides a case in point. We are all familiar with the famous novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee, which was developed into an Academy Award-winning motion picture starring …