This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: We are given one life, and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind or whether to act and, in acting, to live.
– Omar Bradley, General United States Army
To be persuasive we must be believable; to be […]

From: Jenner & Block at www.jenner.com
Lawrence S. Schaner
USA
March 5 2007
“United States courts recently have issued a number of decisions expanding the reach of 28 U.S.C. §1782, a federal statute that permits parties to use U.S. discovery mechanisms to obtain evidence for foreign and international legal proceedings. In a departure from prior rulings, two district […]

By Dr. Ivan Misner
“Good networking is about building relationships. And the people who you know and trust will most likely repeatedly refer you. This means you must build and maintain their trust.
That’s why “touch points” are critical to the networking process. Touch points relate to the occasions in which you “touch” one of your […]

From: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP at www.sablaw.com
USA
March 6 2007
 Introduction
“Our clients frequently ask which is better for their contracts – resolving disputes in arbitration or court? Because appeal rights are limited in arbitration, the question arises whether we can arbitrate in the first instance, but preserve a later right of appeal. Some contracts now […]

Pay attention to the financial glue that holds things together.
Now that the federal estate tax has been “repealed,” what effect will this have on your need for life insurance? Most people will need at least as much as they already have, if not more.
Some people had jumped to the conclusion that with repeal, they would […]

Contributed by DLA Piper Singapore Pte Ltd
March 08 2007
 
“In Government of the Republic of Philippines v Philippine International Air Terminals Co Inc [2006] SGHC 206 the Singapore High Court considered an application by the Philippines government to set aside an arbitral award under the Singapore International Arbitration Act (Cap 143A). The court had to […]

From: Linklaters  at www.linklaters.com
 
United Kingdom, USA
March 1 2007
“In the latest case featuring the efforts of insurers to avoid being sued in the US courts, an insurance claim had been the subject of an arbitration. After an award had been made in London, the plaintiffs sued the defendant captive insurer in a US Federal Court in […]

From: Norton Rose at www.nortonrose.com
United Kingdom
March 1 2007
“We reported on the first instance decision of the following case in the November 2006 edition of our Updater.
In this case, the parties had agreed to mediate and the court ordered the parties’ experts to produce a statement of the issues on which they agreed and on which […]

From: Clifford Chance LLP at www.cliffordchance.com
Cameron Scholes
United Kingdom
February 27 2007
“When exercising his dispute resolution function under a construction contract, the engineer or architect is not bound by the rules of natural justice in circumstances where the parties have a contractual right to refer any such decision to arbitration.
As outlined in our Summer 2006 International […]

By Natalie J. Armstrong,
www.MarketingMediation.com
A PICTURE IS WORTH.. MORE THAN YOU THINK
People love to look at photographs. They are a magnet. No matter where they appear on a page they attract the reader’s eye. Research shows that the best-read parts of the newspaper are the small print captions under the pictures.  That’s worth repeating.
Captions under […]