PALO ALTO, Calif. – February 2, 2022 – The Silicon Valley Arbitration & Mediation Center (SVAMC), has released its highly anticipated 2022 List of the World’s Leading Technology Neutrals (the “Tech List“). California-based non-profit, SVAMC, promotes efficient and effective technology dispute resolution, including the use of arbitration and mediation to resolve business disputes. The Tech […]
Arbitration and ADR in Technology Disputes: A View from Leading Practitioners in the Field
SVAMC is pleased to join with ArbitralWomen and Mayer Brown to sponsor this program which features a panel of leading women in international arbitration who will discuss the evolving role of ADR in technology agreements and disputes. The format will include a lively panel discussion, along with an interactive opportunity for participants to break into […]
Virtual Hot Tubbing – Panel-Appointed Experts: Arbitrators Debate, You Decide
The handling of experts in arbitrations can be challenging. World-class neutrals in the high technology area will discuss two hot issues in the use of experts – the use of “hot tubbing” and whether to rely on tribunal appointed experts. The presentation, taking place during New York Arbitration Week, will consist of two lively debates […]
Settlement, Mediation, and Arbitration During The COVID-19 Court Crisis
The pandemic crisis has hit our judicial system. Courts have had to close their physical doors to protect the judiciary, their personnel and the public. Many are struggling to convert their technological backbones to allow employees to function remotely and to conduct at least emergency matters. During these necessary transitions, another curve is growing, the […]
DOJ Sends Merger Challenge to Arbitration
Those of us in law’s antitrust community sometimes wonder if we have silently labored in distant fields, known only to “deep-state intellectuals” in the Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission. As arbitrators or mediators, we wait patiently by the phone—happily taking on a wide range of business disputes, but seldom seeing cases in our favored […]
Arbitrators Are Not Judges
When I share with non-lawyers at a cocktail party what I do for a living, their response is often “Oh, like a private judge!” I usually mumble, “Yes, sort of” but the better answer is “Not really, not at all.” The distinction is particularly evident in the technology sector. Here’s why. Judges are appointed […]
Engrossing Discussion at First Annual Law Firm Roundtable
On October 26, 2017, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, PC, hosted SVAMC’s first Law Firm Roundtable: A gathering of 13 senior lawyers from ten of Silicon Valley’s major firms, co-sponsored by the International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution (“CPR”). Chris Compton moderated the program, joined by SVAMC’s Chairman Gary Benton, CEO Les Schiefelbein […]
Dispute in Space–Arbitrate!
Google’s Street View has taken flight with a new feature that allows users the feeling of being in outer space. Street View is a technology feature in Google Maps and Google Earth that functions as an interactive virtual map. Street View displays panoramas across all seven continents and in late July introduced a new location […]
Controlling the costs of arbitration: “fixed fees for arbitrators”
One of the most vibrant and intricate issues in international arbitration is unquestionably the costs that go along with this mechanism to solve disputes. Service providers and users across the globe seem unable to find a satisfactory framework to a binomial “cost & time-efficient” procedure with excellence. It is true that arbitral institutions are constantly […]