Section Creates New Training Tool for Arbitration Training
The Dispute Resolution Section of the ABA has just completed production of a new video in DVD format entitled 'Advanced Arbitration Insight: 20/20." The purpose of the new video is to provide a tool for arbitration training that raises some of the more sophisticated issues in complex commercial arbitrations. The format consists of 20 vignettes based on a hypothetical situation developed by Rich Chernick, Chair of the ABA Advanced Arbitration Training Institute. Each vignette is followed by a series of three or four questions that raise probing issues for discussion.
It is expected that the video will be used as part of the ABA Arbitration Training Institute which will hold its Third Annual Training in New York on February 22, 23, 24, 2007. In addition, law schools and bar associations as well as other institutional arbitration trainers may use the video to assist in the training of arbitrators or arbitration advocates. The DVD format makes it easy to view in either one day or multiple day programs since the trainer may skip from one vignette to another or skip questions entirely if desired.
The video is more elaborate than "Mediation Madness" which was produced by the Dispute Resolution Section of the ABA in 2003 in that it has twice as many vignettes and raises a myriad of issues. "Advanced Arbitration Insight: 20/20" was underwritten by not only the ABA but also the College of Commercial Arbitrators, the CPR Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (CPR) and in-kind services provided by the University of Missouri School of Law and its Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution where the filming occurred.
The principal drafters of the vignettes included John Phillips, an arbitrator and mediator with the Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin law firm in Kansas City, Dennis Sharp, an arbitrator and mediator of Sharp Resolutions in Washington, D.C.; and, Dean Emeritus Lani Bader of Golden Gate University School of Law who is a full time arbitrator. The production was a joint project of the Arbitration Committee and the Advocacy & Corporate ADR Committee of the Dispute Resolution Section of the ABA. The video will be supplemented this fall by additional bibliography and annotation and offered at a slightly higher price.
