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Lincoln's Lessons For Lawyers, Thomas J. Stipanowich
Lincoln's Lessons For Lawyers, Thomas J. Stipanowich
Thomas J. Stipanowich
Professor Stipanowich discusses lessons lawyers can learn from Abraham Lincoln.
Arbitration: The "New Litigation", Thomas J. Stipanowich
Arbitration: The "New Litigation", Thomas J. Stipanowich
Thomas J. Stipanowich
Today, binding arbitration procedures are employed in a wider variety of contracts than at any time in our nation's history, and arbitration has become a wide-ranging surrogate for court trial of civil disputes. As a result, arbitration is subjected to unprecedented stresses and strains, and it is fair to say that arbitration has never been subject to wider criticism. Once advocates promoted arbitration as a means of avoiding the contention, cost and expense of court trial; economy, efficiency and the opportunity to fashion true alternatives to litigation are still associated with conventional perceptions of arbitration. Yet today business arbitration is …