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What’s New? Hot Topics and Big Changes in the World of Arbitration

Illinois State Bar Association

Live Web Event

Blank Rome partner Daniel R. Saeedi will serve as a speaker for Illinois State Bar Association Alternative Dispute Resolution Section’s What’s New? Hot Topics and Big Changes in the World of Arbitration, being held Thursday, June 20, 2024, from 1:30 to 3:05 p.m., as a live web event.

ABOUT THE PROGRAM

Program speakers will discuss several important changes taking place in the world of arbitration. Topics of interest to insurance lawyers, corporate law counsel, family law attorneys, general practitioners, and new attorneys include:

  • Expedited arbitration: when does it apply and what are the benefits?
  • Behind the curtain: how the arbitrator selection really works
  • Appeals in arbitration: how to appeal within the arbitration process
  • Mass arbitrations: the good, the bad, and the rules of the road
  • Why diversity matters in arbitration
  • What’s next: how artificial intelligence and alternative dispute resolution interact

Program Coordinator: Missy Greathouse, Dispute Resolution Institute, Inc., Carbondale

Speakers:

  • Moderator: Kristen E. Hudson, Dickinson Wright, PLLC, Chicago
  • Svetlana Gitman, American Arbitration Association, Chicago
  • Nicholas A. Gowen, Burke Warren MacKay and Serritella, Chicago
  • Daniel R. Saeedi, Blank Rome, Chicago

CLE credit is available.

For more information and to register, please visit the event webpage.