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I currently mediate all of my cases on Zoom. I have mediated hundreds of cases on Zoom since March 2020. I have found a Zoom mediation to be a convenient, efficient, cost-effective and beneficial method of settling disputes....more

Miller Canfield

Municipal Retirement Boards and Joint Energy Boards May Now Hold Electronic Meetings Under the OMA

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On February 13, 2024, Public Act 214 of 2023 (“PA 214”) takes effect, amending Michigan's Open Meetings Act to give some public bodies greater freedom in holding electronic meetings....more

Fox Rothschild LLP

A Mediation Isn’t Quite Hotel California, but Check Out Times are Still Strictly Regulated

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The Business Court recently reminded that while there is great value to showing up and seeing what might happen at mediation, the costs of a decision to avoid the process can be more easily quantified. In Chi v. N....more

Bowditch & Dewey

Remote Access to Public Meetings Extended to 2025

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In addition to extending the provisions pertaining to the expanded patio service of alcoholic beverages and the ability to sell alcoholic beverages for takeaway and delivery, Chapter 2 of the Acts of 2023, signed by Governor...more

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Global Dispute Resolution: The Future of Virtual Legal Proceedings Is Shaped by Soaring Travel Costs

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While we may have passed through the worst of the global pandemic, it has unquestionably left a deep and lasting impact on our personal and professional lives. Restrictions that left everyone housebound for months on end...more

Miles Mediation & Arbitration

Ten Tips to Better Mediations Via Zoom

In 2000, I was involved in trying to develop a system for online mediation. The broadband infrastructure to support such a system did not exist, so we were 20 years early. It took the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 to make...more

Allen Matkins

Bill Would Allow Shareholders To Phone It In

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Currently, the California Corporations Code prohibits a California corporation from conducting a meeting of shareholders solely by electronic transmission by and to the corporation, electronic video screen communication,...more

McDermott Will & Emery

ANSPRUCH DES BETRIEBSRATS AUF EIN TABLET ODER NOTEBOOK

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Das Landesarbeitsgericht Hessen hat mit Beschluss vom 14. März 2022 (Az. 16 TaBV 143/21) entschieden, dass der Betriebsrat vom Arbeitgeber zur Ermöglichung der Teilnahme seiner Mitglieder an Betriebsratssitzungen mittels...more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

New York State Adopts New Law Governing Public Meetings by Videoconference

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As part of the 2022 adopted State Budget, the New York State Legislature amended the Open Meetings Law (Public Officers Law § 100, et seq.) to authorize public bodies to conduct meetings using videoconference technology...more

Bricker Graydon LLP

Governor DeWine signs House Bill 51 into law, allowing for virtual public meetings until July 1, 2022

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On February 17, 2022, Governor DeWine signed House Bill 51 into law. House Bill 51 includes an uncodified provision authorizing public meetings to be held by teleconference, video conference or other similar electronic...more

Roetzel & Andress

The Return of Virtual Open Meeting

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The virtual public meeting option available last year because of the COVID-19 pandemic will return with the recent passage of Sub HB 51. The Ohio Open Meetings Act requires public bodies, including Boards of Education,...more

JAMS

[Video] The Future of ADR: Reflecting on the Successes and Possibilities of Virtual ADR - Reflections on the capabilities of...

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In this video, captured during JAMS’ 2021 “Cocktails and Conversations” event on the future of alternative dispute resolution, JAMS neutrals and prominent leaders within the legal industry reflect on the growth and...more

Firesign | Enlightened Legal Marketing

To Zoom or Not To Zoom: When Clients Want (and Don’t Want) to Videoconference

From 2018 to 2021, the percentage of clients who want to work with a lawyer remotely grew considerably, from 23 percent to 79 percent. However, according to research published in Clio’s 2021 Legal Trends Report, clients’...more

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Omicron and the Ongoing Pandemic: Accepting the Virtual Future of ADR - Mediating from Home and Avoiding Burnout

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When I started conducting mediations and arbitrations on Zoom almost two years ago, I could not have imagined that I would still be doing so today and that my practice and the alternative dispute resolution (ADR) field would...more

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Virtual Mediation in Today’s World: A Pandemic Success Story - Why it works so well

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When the legal profession began to experience the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, I wondered specifically how it would affect alternative dispute resolution. I was not so concerned about arbitration. There was precedence in...more

NAM (National Arbitration and Mediation)

Reflections About The Pandemic, ADR And A Look At What's Ahead

I remember the day quite well, March 16, 2020, leaving NAM's midtown office after my last mediation, stepping out onto 42nd Street at the height of rush hour, and finding a ghost town. New York City, New York State, and most...more

McDermott Will & Emery

IRS Audit Update: Communicating Via Video Meetings and Secure Messaging

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The traditional audit experience for taxpayers large and small has, like many things, been impacted by COVID-19. Taxpayers and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) have been forced to navigate audits in a remote environment,...more

JAMS

Virtual Arbitration at a Glance

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On June 25, 2020, the Commercial and Federal Litigation Section co-sponsored with JAMS a live webinar featuring an interactive mock virtual arbitration of a commercial dispute. The Hon. Ariel E. Belen, arbitrator/mediator at...more

Stotler Hayes Group, LLC

Expressions of Zoom Gratitude

Do you ever wake up curious about unique, personal statistics and how those stats compare to others? I’m sure I am not alone in these metric-gathering moments. Today, for example, I woke up wondering how many hours I had...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

Recording Zoom Calls: What to Know Before Hitting the Red Button

Since the onset of the pandemic, the workflow structure in the corporate world has drastically shifted. In response to the pandemic (but likely a practice here to stay), video conferencing on platforms such as Zoom has become...more

BCLP

Risky Business: Recording Board Meetings

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With the Delta variant surge, many companies have delayed plans for a return to in-person board and committee meetings. The go-to alternative, in many cases, will be a return to video conferences, which worked well in the...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Is California’s Open Meetings Law a ‘Long Haul’ COVID-19 Victim?

New Law Permits Local Governments to Continue to Meet Remotely Until 2024 - California’s historic open meeting law, the Ralph M. Brown Act, requires that local governments conduct their business in public meetings and...more

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[PODCAST] JAMS Neutrals See Strong Future for Hybrid ADR Proceedings

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A podcast from JAMS featuring neutrals Zee Claiborne and Michael Young on their experiences conducting hybrid proceedings at JAMS. In this podcast, JAMS neutrals Zee Claiborne and Michael Young discuss virtual and hybrid...more

Bilzin Sumberg

Zoom Settlement Will Likely Mute Federal Class Action Lawsuit over Data Privacy

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After months of litigation, Zoom Video Communications has agreed to pay $85 million to settle a proposed class action pending in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California....more

Husch Blackwell LLP

Texas Open Meeting Act Requirements To Return September 1, 2021

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On June 30, 2021, Governor Abbott approved Attorney General Ken Paxton’s request to lift the open meeting law suspensions that had been temporarily suspended in March 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result,...more

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