IP ADR BLOGGERS' UPCOMING SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
Take it or Leave It? (cartoon by Charles Fincher at LawComix.com) 
Don't get caught making unproductive settlement moves, learn from some of the best in the U.K., L.A. and Half Moon Bay in October and November.
For our U.K. readers, Victoria Pynchon will be speaking on IP ADR in the USA: Big Ideas and Fresh Perspectives on 8 October 2007 at the Hatton Conference Centre in London. Click here to see the day-long schedule and to sign up for early-bird discounts. A downloadable .pdf of the conference schedule is in our sidebar to the left.
For our Southern California readers, a full-day seminar on Settlement Techniques that Give You the Winning Edge with IP ADR Bloggers Victoria Pynchon and Les J. Weinstein; Judges Alexander Williams, III (full-time settlement Judge) and Victoria Chaney (Ass't Supervising Judge of the Los Angeles Complex Litigation Court); and neutrals the Hon. John Leo Wagner (Federal Magistrate, Retired) and Jay McCauley, will take place at the Wilshire Grande in downtown Los Angeles on November 13, 2007. Sign up here.
If your practice crosses over with employment issues, join us for ALFA International's Labor & Employment Practice Group Seminar entitled "Employer of the Year" or "the Office": Which One Are You? (.pdf of the event brochure) at the Half Moon Bay Ritz-Carlton on October 3-5, 2007.
Once again, Victoria Pynchon will be speaking, this time with Joshua Frank, Senior Legal Counsel to DHL (moderated by James M. Peterson of San Diego's Higgs, Fletcher & Mack, LLP) on the Pro's and Con's of Employment Arbitration.
You'll have to get up early for this one -- it's scheduled from 8:45-10:00 a.m. on October 3 -- but we promise you a lively debate and fresh perspectives on an issue that might make corporate and litigation counsel want to rip those arbitration clauses out of their and their clients' employment agreements. Then again, you might just decide to rewrite those ADR Clauses altogether so that you get the best possible dispute resolution mechanism for your and your clients' work-force.
Either way, the time is ripe for reconsidering and revising the way in which you and your clients handle disputes with their employees.
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