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Commercial Mediation Practice Guide: A Practical Handbook for Lawyers and their Business Clients, Third Edition is a revised and expanded version which provides an invaluable and straightforward understanding of key suitability, preparation and advocacy issues in mediation.
List of contents
Table of Contents:
- The Commercial Mediation Landscape
- The Decision to Mediate
- The Typical Stages of In-Person and Virtual Commercial Mediation
- The Role of the Mediator
- Negotiation and Mediation – Overcoming the Barriers to Resolution
- Preparation
- Representing the Client in the Mediation
- The Business Executive’s Role in Mediation
- Special Topics in Commercial Mediation
- Case Studies in Commercial Mediation
- Corporate and Law Firm Dispute Prevention and Resolution Strategies
- Reflections on How We Got Here
About the author
Conna Weiner began her career as a litigator at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York and then spent over twenty years in-house fielding diverse issues in global life sciences/healthcare companies both in the U.S. and abroad, including as a General Counsel with Novartis and other companies (including pharmaceuticals, medical devices, diagnostics, vaccines and many other technologies). She has been a full-time arbitrator and mediator for almost 10 years and serves on a number of alternative dispute resolution panels; she was honored to be asked to join the JAMS panel in 2018: www.jamsadr.com/weiner. Her ADR practice focuses on complex business disputes and she has special expertise in life sciences, healthcare, IP and transactions. She also serves as an arbitrator and mediator with the International Institute of Conflict Prevention and Resolution (“CPR’s) Panel of Distinguished Neutrals (including its general commercial, biotech and life sciences/healthcare specialty panels), the American Health Lawyers’ Association Neutral Panel, the World Intellectual Property Organization Panel of Neutrals and and a number of regional providers. She is also available on AAA and ICDR cases by appointment of parties and neutrals. She was appointed to the Tech List of the Silicon Valley Arbitration and Mediation Center Tech List (of neutrals with expertise in high tech disputes) in 2016 and as a Fellow in the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, an international arbitration organization. She has arbitrated and mediated a diverse set of complex commercial and employment cases, including cases in the life sciences and healthcare arena such as research and commercialization agreement disputes, IP matters, provider termination, insurance coverage, payor contract and pharmaceutical company disputes involving false advertising and complex transactional issues. She regularly writes and speaks on ADR topics. In the ABA she has served as the Co-Chair of the Women in Dispute Resolution Committee of the Section of Dispute Resolution and also holds ADR leadership positions in the Section of Litigation and the Health Law Section. Some of her publications are available on her JAMS website listed above, as are details about her practice and experience.
Summary
Commercial Mediation Practice Guide: A Practical Handbook for Lawyers and their Business Clients, Third Edition is a revised and expanded version which provides an invaluable and straightforward understanding of key suitability, preparation and advocacy issues in mediation.
