Michigan’s Court Rule on mediation is now ten years old. The provision on confidentiality in mediation has proven to be both too broad in some ways, and too narrow in others. In November 2008, the State Court Administrative Office convened a committee to recommend changes to the court rule on mediation confidentiality. The committee members […]

A common way to compose an arbitration panel is for each party to select an arbitrator, then those two select the third arbitrator. The arbitrators selected by the parties may be neutral, or partisan. Marty Weisman, a respected Michigan attorney and arbitrator, has written about the challenges associated with party-appointed arbitrators (e.g., in an article […]

A front-page story in our local paper yesterday reported that a former professional football player has sued the NFL Players Association and his former football team for non-payment of a pension to which he believes he is entitled (“Ex-football player says union owes him,” Grand Rapids Press, July 7, 2010, page 1). So I find […]