The Employer-Contractor Debate: The Best Way to Resolve Conflicts
It gives me great pleasure to announce that the publishers of this blog and Kluwer Arbitration are hosting their first Webinar designed for corporate counsel on Wednesday 9th November (4pm Central European time/3pm UK time/10am Eastern Standard Time).
The webinar is entitled Shell vs GE: The Employer-Contractor Debate. The Best Way to Resolve Conflicts and the speakers are Ute Joas-Quinn, Associate General Counsel of Shell and Mike McIlwrath, Associate General Counsel – litigation of GE Oil & Gas.
Sometimes disputes arise between friendly companies and Ute and Mike will address what would happen in a hypothetical dispute between their companies and also bring their experience to bear in a [...]
Kluwer Launches Mediation Blog
Following the success of this widely-read blog, Kluwer are thrilled to announce to the launch of Kluwer Mediation Blog. In addition to posts from its distinguished Editors, Nadja Alexander and Bill Marsh, you can also enjoy comment and opinion from its team of regular contributors from across Europe, North and South America, Australasia and Africa. Monthly bloggers include: Jeffrey Krivis, First Mediation Corporation; Joel Lee, National University of Singapore; Diane Levin, Diane Levin LLC; Geoff Sharp, Sharp Commercial Mediation; and Machtel Pel, Pel Mediation.
We are delighted that Ales Zalar, the Slovenian Minister of Justice, was able to launch Kluwer Mediation Blog with a thought-provok [...]
Here Comes the Sun …
The 2010 World Cup may have come and gone (good, or perhaps bad news, depending where you stand on this), as by the looks of it (at least from where I’m sitting in London, SE1), has our short-lived summer. Thoughts spring to mind: why did we ever complain about the sweaty carriage on the London Underground, the lack of air conditioning, or the lack of outside tables with umbrellas to sit and enjoy our summer Pimms?? So, for all those who are not reveling in Spain’s World Cup victory, and need a summer ‘pick-me-up’, here it comes …
The last time I had the pleasure of blogging was back in December, when I introduced several significant enhancements to Kluwer Arbitration, including a [...]
Another Reason to be Jolly…
In the spirit of spreading some festive cheer, I wanted to share with you what has been going on behind the scenes with Kluwer Arbitration this year. What an exciting year it has been. Following extensive customer research with users towards the end of 2008, a development plan was put in place by Kluwer Law International to launch a significantly revised and enhanced service. Work has been carrying on behind the scenes all year – in conjunction with our team of key users, whom have greatly assisted the development by testing the service at regular intervals – and the result, a drastically improved service.
The ‘facelift’ has given Kluwer Arbitration a fresher and more up-to-d [...]
