Description
This program gives employment lawyers a comprehensive overview of the employment arbitration process and offers practical advice for achieving successful outcomes and avoiding pitfalls. Topics covered include: arbitration agreements and motions to compel arbitration, the pros and cons of various arbitral forums, arbitrator selection, issues relating to arbitration costs, pleadings, pre-hearing conferences, discovery, motion practice, issues relating to the arbitration hearing (use of exhibits, evidentiary issues, strategy), and post-hearing motions.
The topics are covered by three separate panels of experts, each consisting of an arbitrator, management attorney, and employee-side attorney, whose different perspectives make for lively interchange.
Program Contents
- Arbitration Agreements, Different Arbitral Forums, Arbitrator Selection, and Costs and Pleadings
- Pre-Arbitration Conferences, Discovery and Discovery Disputes, Motions
- Hearings: Strategy and Evidentiary Issues and Post-Hearing Motions
Overall Planning Chairs and Coordinators
Jonathan Ben-Asher, Esq.
Ritz Clark & Ben-Asher LLP
-New York City
Glen P. Doherty, Esq.
McNamee, Lochner,
Titus & Williams, P.C.
-Albany
Abigail J. Pessen, Esq.
Mediation Services
-New York City
Program Speakers
Laura H. Allen, Esq.
Sidley Austin LLP
-New York City
Jacquelin F. Drucker, Esq.
Arbitrator
-New York City
Ronald G. Dunn, Esq.
Gleason Dunn
Walsh & O'Shea
-Albany
John E. Higgins, Esq.
Nixon Peabody LLP
-Albany
Ira B. Lobel, Esq.
Arbitrator & Mediator
-Albany
Laurence S. Moy, Esq.
Outten & Golden LLP
-New York City
Rosemary A. Townley, Esq.
Arbitrator & Mediator
-Larchmont
Robert S. Whitman, Esq.
Seyfarth Shaw LLP
-New York City
Pearl Zuchlewski, Esq.
Kraus & Zuchlewski, LLP
-New York City
Total MCLE Credits 4.0
Ethics MCLE Credits 0.0
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