Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)

Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)

Charles C. Adams | Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Editor: Please tell our readers about your background and your practice. Adams: I am firmwide head of Akin Gump’s global international arbitration practice group. I’ve lived and worked in Geneva for the last 25 years as managing partner of four different U.S. firms. Akin Gump’...

Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)

Anthony Candido | Clifford Chance

As arbitration clauses have become more common in commercial contracts, many parties have discovered that arbitration is not as streamlined or as inexpensive as they had hoped. Among other things, arbitral panels in the United States are increasingly willing to permit wide-ranging discovery from...

Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)

Theodore R. Posner | Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

Editor: Ted, please tell our readers about your background and your practice. Posner: After graduation from law school in 1994, I clerked for Judge Wilfred Feinberg on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. I entered private practice for a period of a little more than three years. I...