ABA Section of Dispute Resolution Awards Luncheon
Honoring….
John Feerick as the recipient of the D’Alemberte-Raven Award
The College of Commercial Arbitrators as the recipient of the Lawyer as Problem Solver Award
The winners and participants in the 2011 National Representation in Mediation Competition
The Presentation of the Warren Knight Award
D’Alemberte-Raven Award
The ABA’s D’Alemberte-Raven Award recognizes leaders in the dispute resolution community who have contributed significantly to the field by developing new or innovative programs, improvements in service and efficiency, research and writings in the area of dispute resolution or continuing education programs. The Award is named for Robert D. Raven of San Francisco and Talbot D'Alemberte of Tallahassee, former ABA presidents and pioneers within the ABA in the area of dispute resolution.
Dean Feerick has had a long career as a mediator and mediation advocate beginning before mediation was common-place. He is nationally known as a brilliant, honest and perceptive person able to achieve consensus in mediations and in many areas of social justice. He has served in many public service positions during his career. He served as Dean of Fordham Law School for 20 years and is now the Director of the first chair of the Section's ethics committee and at Fordham Law School. He practiced law at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom from 1961-1982.
The Award will be presented to Dean Feerick by Nancy Hardin Rogers, past D’Alemberte-Raven recipient.
The Lawyer as Problem Solver Award
The Lawyer as Problem Solver Award recognizes individuals and organizations that use their legal skills in creative, innovative and often non-traditional ways to solve problems for their clients and within their communities.
The College of Commercial Arbitrators is a national group of prominent, experienced commercial arbitrators with the mission of providing a meaningful contribution to the profession, the public and to the businesses and lawyers who depend on commercial arbitration as a primary means of dispute resolution. While the CCA is composed of many of the leading neutrals in the United States, its organizational focus is not on the promotion of those individual members, but instead on promoting high ethical conduct and professionalism, best practices, peer training, innovative programming and opportunities for interaction among leaders in the field.
Importantly, in response to what many perceived as a crisis in arbitration due to a chorus of concerns about the growing costs in time and money of the arbitration process, the CCA convened the National Summit on Business to Business Arbitration in Washington, DC. The Summit—and the CCA—was successful in effectively and creatively garnering the support and participation of major arbitral and legal institutions, including both practitioners and in house counsel. The Summit led to the completion of the College of Commercial Arbitrators Protocols for Expeditious, Cost Effective Commercial Arbitration. The Protocols are serving to shape the arbitration process in ways that will assist in ensuring that arbitration can achieve its promise as an efficient and appealing method of dispute resolution. The proactive and high quality effort of the CCA is the foundation of this Award.
Forrest Mosten, past Lawyer as Problem Solver Award recipient and Co-Chair of the Lawyer as Problem Solver Awards Committee will present the award to Stanley P. Sklar, CCA President, and Curtis E. von Kann, Immediate Past President of CCA.
The National Representation in Mediation Competition
The winner of the National Representation in Mediation Competition will be recognized. The Competition provides an environment in which law students can learn and demonstrate their advocacy skills and model appropriate preparation for and representation of a client in mediation. The competition was designed to familiarize law student participants with advocacy skills in alternative dispute resolution process, specifically mediation. The judging criteria are designed to reward those participants who use an effective combination of advocacy skills and problem-solving approach in the mediation. The co-chairs of the Section of Dispute Resolution ADR in Law Schools committee will present the award to the winning team.
The Presentation of the Warren Knight Award
The JAMS Foundation Warren Knight Award provides a $25,000 grant to an organization that promotes dispute prevention and conflict resolution.
Awards Luncheon tickets are $25.00 and can be purchased as part of your conference registration process.
