International Institute For Conflict Prevention & Resolution

Host Michael McIlwrath talks trends with Richard Naimark, senior vice president of the American Arbitration Association. Richard oversees the AAA's International Centre for Dispute Resolution. He discusses the ADR market for big providers and regional organizations, as well as the growth of ad hoc arbitration.

Host Michael McIlwrath talks with John Heaps, a partner in Eversheds' London office who oversees the firm’s litigation team. John explains the firm's unique conflict resolution practices, including how 350 Eversheds attorneys got conflict resolution educations and fresh diplomas. He also discusses the firm's project management approach, which has earned Eversheds its position as sole litigation provider for a major multinational corporation, and, last year, an honorable mention for the inaugural 2007 CPR Law Firm Award for Excellence in ADR.

This week, Michael McIlwrath examines the Arbitration Tribunal of Barcelona, an example of a smaller regional ADR provider that is carving out its own provider niche in a business long dominated by a few big players.

Michael McIlwrath talks with attorneys from France and Italy regarding using litigation expert witnesses. This podcast addresses expertise proceedings and "technical consultings" in the respective countries, and how these practices affect litigation and settlement.

Michael McIlwrath visits Mumbai to look at the growth of legal process outsourcing. This controversial method of reducing litigation costs in common law systems, like the United States and the United Kingdom, sends legal work to India. Mike talks with an entrepreneur founder of outsourcing firm Pangea3, and one of its top managers, who say that their outsourcing business is growing at a rate of 200% a year.

Michael McIlwrath interviews Prof. Dwight Golann, of Boston's Suffolk University Law School, to reveal how mediation advocates and parties can "borrow a mediator's powers" to serve their case better.

Join Michael McIlwrath as he speaks with Eva Horvath, a veteran Budapest educator and practitioner, in a wide-ranging discussion on Eastern European ADR, locally and across borders.

Join Michael McIlwrath for a conversation with Debevoise & Plimpton partner David W. Rivkin about the "Town Elder" international arbitration reform model.

Join Michael McIlwrath and CPR President Kathy Bryan as they discuss with Lord Harry Woolf, England's former Lord Chief Justice, the ADR-centric civil justice reforms he spearheaded in the United Kingdom.

Join Michael McIlwrath as he discusses arbitration, mediation, and the way business deals with litigation in India with Delhi attorney Lira Goswami.

Join Michael McIlwrath as he discusses he discusses getting parties to the mediation table in cross-border business disputes with Karl Mackie, the longtime chief executive of London's leading ADR provider, the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution.

Michael McIlwrath speaks with Northrop Grumman's Legal Director-Europe, Wolf von Kumberg in London.

Join Michael McIlwrath as he discusses with JAMS' general counsel, Jay Welsh, how great mediators pull parties together in difficult business cases.

Join Michael McIlwrath as he discusses why ADR is essential for Russian business deals with Tim Hardy, a partner at CMS Cameron McKenna in London, and Irena Vanenkova, a Moscow mediator.

Michael McIlwrath discusses mediating with Arbitration Institutions: The ICDR and the ICC.

Michael McIlwrath discusses a Texas perspective on International Arbitration.

Michael McIlwrath interviews Kevin Padian for a Texas perspective on International Arbitration.

Michael McIlwrath interviews Antonio Tavares on dispute resolution in Brazil.

Michael McIlwrath interviews Thierry Garby on International Mediation.

Michael McIlwrath holds a discussion with Tom Sikora, Senior Counsel, El Paso Corp.