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Resolution System Institute’s Evening of Firsts

Susan M. Yates, June 2nd, 2014
Susan Yates and Judge Morton Denlow listen to Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan

Susan Yates and Judge Morton Denlow listen to Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan

Last Wednesday was a great evening for RSI! We held our first-ever “friendraising” event and presented our first-ever RSI Appreciation Award. Our generous friends at the Chicago office of the Skadden Arps law firm kindly hosted a beautiful reception for about 60 people. This was our first reception designed to introduce RSI to new friends in the Chicago corporate and legal world. Attendees included lawyers from some of Chicago’s largest corporations and law firms, judges from the counties where RSI conducts foreclosure mediation programs, and RSI’s own Board and staff members, with a sprinkling of local neutrals, funders and others. The two highlights of the program were remarks by the Illinois Attorney General and the presentation of the RSI Appreciation Award. (more…)

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Remembering Dick Salem

Susan M. Yates, March 24th, 2014

The field of Alternative Dispute Resolution lost one of our founders this weekend when Dick Salem died. Dick’s core values led him to work in dispute resolution before it was a field. While serving with the U.S. government’s Community Relations Service in the 1960s and 70s, he was mediator at Wounded Knee and when Nazis wanted to march in Skokie, Illinois. Later, he worked extensively in South Africa and then other African countries, most notably Rwanda.

Dick also worked in the Chicago area, which is where I met him back in the 80s. Wherever ADR was the topic, Dick was there. He served on the board of Neighborhood Justice of Chicago (now the Center for Conflict Resolution) when I was executive director and we served together on the board of the Chicago chapter of the Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution (now the Association for Conflict Resolution.) (more…)

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Sweet Deal on National ADR Conference

Susan M. Yates, January 30th, 2014

For the past 15 years, I have attended the American Bar Association Dispute Resolution Section’s annual conference, and I plan to go this year, too. The ABA bills it as the world’s largest ADR conference, but that’s not the draw for me. I go because they have an all-day court ADR symposium that gives me the opportunity to meet with and learn from my court ADR colleagues from around the nation and the world.

As is usually the case, RSI will be presenting at the Court ADR Symposium and in the main conference. In the Court ADR Symposium, I will talk about our newly renovated CourtADR.org resource center, especially the interactive bibliography of studies of cost, pace and satisfaction in court ADR programs. (I hope the renovations are complete by then!) In the main conference, I will be part of a panel discussing licensing, certification, etc. for mediators.

This year the conference takes place April 2-5 in Miami. The deadline for the ABA’s lower-cost early bird registration is February 14, 2014 – Valentine’s Day. If you just attend the Court ADR Symposium, the cost is $110 for all day. Plus, considering the vexatious winter affecting much of the country, the idea of a few days in Miami sounds wonderful! But I don’t suggest you mention that when you ask your court to fund the trip. Instead, you might want to try for a scholarship from the ABA. The deadline for that is a week earlier, February 7.

See you in Miami!

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RSI Celebrates Professor Katheryn Dutenhaver at Conflict Resolution Day

Just Court ADR, October 21st, 2013

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA Resolution Systems Institute presented our Harris H. Agnew Service to Community Award to Professor Katheryn Dutenhaver at ACR Chicago’s Conflict Resolution Day.

The award is presented to individuals whose cumulative activities have substantially and meaningfully furthered and enhanced court ADR systems in Illinois. For 2013, we honored Professor Dutenhaver with a plaque that reads as follows:

“Professor Dutenhaver is a pioneer in the ADR field. She began teaching mediation to law students in 1986 and by the next year, her students were mediating small claims cases – some of the first students in the nation to do so. The success of this program led Professor Dutenhaver to co-found the Center for Dispute Resolution at DePaul University. Other Chicago law schools have followed in her footsteps by offering such opportunities to students. (more…)

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