Thursday, August 29th
8 a.m PST| 11 a.m EST
Our special guest this week, Graham Ross, Mediator, will Present on:
The benefits and dangers of AI within mediation
The benefits and dangers of AI within mediation together with a live roleplay of Smartsettle ONE as well as the application of Smartsettle Infinity to a fictionalised resolution of a shareholder dispute
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Our presenter:
•UK lawyer/mediator and, for 22yrs, writer, advisor, teacher, developer, presenter on Online Dispute Resolution (ODR)
•Former Board Member of The International Council for Online Dispute Resolution and Chair of its Standards Committee.
•Fellow of The National Center For Technology and Dispute Resolution at University of Massachusetts (Amherst)
•Official Observer to the Council of Europe’s European Cyberjustice Network
•Member of the UK Civil Justice Council’s ODR Advisory Group and co-author of its 2015 Report on ODR for low value civil claims that led to the introduction of the online civil money claims court
•Member of the UK Civil Justice Council’s ADR Working Party and co-author of its 2018 Report on the role of mediation in the court system
•Advisor on ODR to the courts in UK, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Canada, The Council of Europe and currently contracted to advise the courts in Ukraine
• Has run a training course on ODR since 2007
* Ran a pilot for the Ministry of Justice (in 2008) of asynchronous online mediation in two small claims track courts (24 live cases).
* Ran international conferences on ODR
* Ran two pilots for PayPal of online mediation for consumer disputes.
* Former VP (Europe) for Modria, a leading US developer of systems of ODR, now acquired by Tyler Technologies, providers of ODR technology to courts.
* Designed and wrote the code for QUILL,the first combined accounting and time recording package for solicitors.
* Co-founder of Lawtel, a former online legal research service.
*I co-founded the UK's first ODR service, a blind bidding service called We Can Settle in 2001, and subsequently the online mediation service The Mediation Room, which was launched by Lord Woolf , former Lord Chief Justice, at the Law Society and on which platform trials have been conducted for PayPal, the UK Small Claims Court, the Law Council of Australia and other organisations.
*I was a member of the Working Party of the European Committee on Standardisation (CEN) which developed a Workshop Agreement on standards for Online Dispute Resolution
*I was a member of the EU funded EMCOD project led by the University of Tilburg and which has developed an online tool for the measurement of justice through ODR.
*I was the co-author of the European chapter in “Online Dispute Resolution: Theory and Practice” and which was published in 2010 (Eleven Publishing - ISB 9490947253), which described as "a state-of-the-art overview and assessment of the status quo and future of the Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) field."
*I speak regularly at international conferences on the impact of the law on the Internet and e-commerce and on technology in the judiciary and Alternative Dispute Resolution. I have been presenting regularly at conferences on ODR since 2002 when the now annual International Forum on Online Dispute Resolution was first launched at the Palais Des Nations in Geneva by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. The Forum, which has travelled around five continents, was hosted by myself in 2007 at the University of Liverpool. I have presented at events in the Czech Republic, Bulgaria , Poland, Azerbaijan, where I chaired the workshop on ODR at the Internet Governance Forum, France, Argentina, USA, Canada, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand, Croatia and other places
*I am now an advisor to Smartsettle Resolutions Inc of British Columbia, developer of AI tools to aid negotiation and mediation.
Offered by Will Work For Food and moderated by Jeff Kichaven (www.JeffKichaven.com ) and Jean Lawler (www.LawlerADR.com)
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