Welcome From Our Section Chair
Lela P. Love

Welcome to the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution. If you are interested in dispute resolution, we invite you to make our Section your home. You will find we are a diverse group, with disparate views, bound together by our commitment to promoting and improving fair and cost-effective dispute resolution processes.

As part of the American Bar Association, the world’s largest voluntary professional association, the Section of Dispute Resolution, with over 17,000 members, is the world’s largest association of dispute resolution professionals. Through our Section’s conferences, continuing education programs, research activities, information services, eNewsletter, publications, and mediation and arbitration institutes for neutrals and advocates throughout the United States, we deliver useful knowledge and training to our members.

Take some time to explore our Section’s website containing valuable, cutting-edge information you can use in your practice.

If you want to be part of the action, please get involved by joining the Section and then joining a Section committee in an area of interest to you. I think you will find us a congenial, collaborative group.

Thanks for your interest in the work of our Section. If you have ideas for improving the Section, please share them with me by e-mail to love@yu.edu.

To view a video message from the Section Chair, click here.

Benefits of Being a Member

The American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution provides its members and the public with creative leadership in the dispute resolution field by fostering diversity, developing and offering educational programs, providing technical assistance, and producing publications that promote problem-solving and excellence in the provision of dispute resolution services.

MARK YOUR CALENDARS!

Interested in learning more about a specific area of ADR? Use the links above to view each committee page.

• Call for Program Proposals 2010 Spring Conference
• University of Richmond School of Law Wins 2009 Representation in Mediation Competition
  
• Basil Paterson of New York and Boston Law Collaborative to Receive 2009 ABA Lawyer as Problem Solver Awards
• Thank you to the Sponsors of our 11th Annual Spring Conference
• International Mediation Leadership Summit
• National Clearinghouse for Mediator Ethics Opinions
• Judge Wayne Brazil Named 2009 D'Alemberte Raven Award Recipient
• Resources and Information for Foreclosure Mediation
• Task Force on Improving Mediation Quality Issues Final Report
• Committee on Mediator Ethical Guidance Issues Response