Thursday, April 10th
8:00am PST | 11:00am EST
Our guest this week is Eric Green, Principal, Resolutions, LLC presents:
Dispute Resolution: The Stage 3 Imperative
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Presentation Description:
Evolution of dispute resolution systems from the “eye-for-an-eye” primitive stage through the “adjudicative” stage to a higher evolved consensual stage 3. Historical, behavioral, and economic evidence of the mid-stage struggle for advancement, through the eyes of a lifelong practitioner and scholar.
About our presenter:
Professor Green is one of the pioneers of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) in the United States and around the world. He is co-founder of Endispute (now part of JAMS) and Resolutions, LLC. Professor Green graduated from Harvard Law School in 1972 and was awarded the Knox Memorial Traveling Fellowship, which took him to Cambridge University for further legal studies. Professor Green was an associate, later partner, with the law firm Munger, Tolles & Olson and then an Attorney Advisor to the Regional Director of the Federal Trade Commission.
Professor Green specializes in mediating and arbitrating complex legally-intensive multi-party cases including securities, financial, intellectual property, anti-trust, professional negligence (attorney, accountant, physician), construction, product liability, mass tort, and all types of class actions. In August 2014, Professor Green was appointed the Monitor for the $7 billion Consumer Relief portion of the RMBS settlement between the DOJ, six states and Bank of America. In 2017 Professor Green was appointed as the Special Master overseeing the Takata Airbags Restitution Funds and the Trustee of the Takata Airbag Tort Compensation Trust Fund. He has also served as Special Master in numerous other mass torts including, recently, Ephedra and Fresenius Granuflo dialysis cardiac arrests. Professor Green was instrumental in assisting in the establishment of the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution in New York, CEDR in London and the mediation program in Hong Kong. He has been involved in training mediators and in advising on the development of mediation programs. Professor Green was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American College of Civil Trial Mediators. Professor Green was awarded by CPR the James F. Henry Award for outstanding contributions to the field of ADR in 2010.