College of Commerical Arbitrators - Managing Your First Arbitration

  Dade County Bar Association
announces

 College of Commercial Arbitrators/American Arbitration Association/JAMS Florida Bar ADR Section and Dade County Bar Association
Managing Your First Arbitration
Miami, Florida, April 28, 2011
Program Agenda

8:00-8:45 AM     Registration and Breakfast
8:45-9:00 AM     Introduction – Eugene Farber (CCA) and Al Orosa (AAA)

9:00-10:00 AM   Getting to Arbitration                  
Presenter: Christi L. Underwood, Principal
Christi L. Underwood PA; AAA Arbitrator; CCA Fellow

+ Advantages of arbitration
+ Drafting alternative dispute resolution (ADR) clauses
+ Selecting the arbitrator
+ Motions to compel or stay
+ Arbitral jurisdiction
+ Pleadings in arbitration
+ Costs of arbitration
+ Arbitration Fairness Act considerations

10:00-11 :00 AM    The Preliminary Conference & Discovery
Presenter: Richard DeWitt, Principal, Resolve Disputes
   Distinguished Fellow – International Academy of Mediators
   Fellow – The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
   Fellow – The College of Commercial Arbitrators

+ Role of the arbitrators
+ The preliminary conference
+ Managing discovery
+ Pre-hearing exchange of witness lists and exhibits
+ Requests for hearing subpoenas
+ Time management and logistics

11:00-11:15 AM Break

11: 15 AM-12: 15 PM    Ethical Issues in Arbitration
Presenter: Eugene Farber, Partner, Farber, Pappalardo & Carbonari, LLP;
Adjunct Professor, PACE University School of Law;
AAA Arbitrator; CCA Fellow

+ Confidentiality in arbitration
+ Disclosure requirements
+ Party-appointed arbitrators
+ Other ethical issues in arbitration

12:15 -1:45 PM Lunch

1:45 - 2:45 PM The Arbitration Hearing
Presenter: Larry R. Leiby, Partner, LB Consensus, LLC
Adjunct Professor, Florida International University College of Law
AAA Arbitrator; CCA Fellow

+ Format of hearings
+ Scheduling and length of hearings
+ Exhibits
+ Testimonial evidence
+ Examination of witnesses
+ Expert testimony in arbitration
+ Costs and attorney fees

2:45 - 3:45 PM        The Award
Presenter: R. Wayne Thorpe
Chair, ABA Dispute Resolution Section;
JAMS Arbitrator; CCA Fellow

+Dispositive motions
+The reasoned & non-reasoned award
+ Appeals
+ CCA Protocols for expeditious, cost-effective commercial arbitration

3:45 - 4:00 PM Break

4:00 – 4:50 PM     Panel Discussion, Q&A: Trends in Arbitration (Open forum with the panelists)

Moderator:  Eugene Farber

Panelists: Al Orosa, Vice President AAA, Joseph Matthews, Partner, Colson & Hicks, AAA Arbitrator; CCA Fellow, Gilbert K. Squires, Partner, SquiresBenson, P.L., AAA Arbitrator; CCA Fellow,  and speakers

Closing Comments & Evaluation forms

CLE Credit.  Approved for 7 hours Florida Bar CLE credit, including 1 hour ethics. Course No. 54071.

ACE Credit: AAA neutrals will receive credit for meeting their arbitrator continuing education (ACE) requirements for two years. Please email AAA Neutrals Services at ecenter@adr.org to report your attendance.

For Registration form please click HERE