This program gives employment lawyers a comprehensive overview of the employment arbitration process and offers practical advice for achieving successful outcomes and avoiding pitfalls. Topics covered include:  arbitration agreements and motions to compel arbitration, the pros and cons of various arbitral forums, arbitrator selection, issues relating to arbitration costs, pleadings, pre-hearing conferences, discovery, motion practice, issues relating to the arbitration hearing (use of exhibits, evidentiary issues, strategy), and post-hearing motions.
The topics are covered by three separate panels of experts, each consisting of an arbitrator, management attorney, and employee-side attorney, whose different perspectives make for lively interchange.

Program Contents
• Arbitration Agreements, Different Arbitral Forums, Arbitrator Selection, and Costs and Pleadings
• Pre-Arbitration Conferences, Discovery and Discovery Disputes, Motions
• Hearings: Strategy and Evidentiary Issues and Post-Hearing Motions

Overall Planning Chairs and Coordinators

Jonathan Ben-Asher, Esq.
Ritz Clark & Ben-Asher LLP
—New York City

Glen P. Doherty, Esq.
McNamee, Lochner,
Titus & Williams, P.C.
—Albany

Abigail J. Pessen, Esq.
Mediation Services
—New York City

Program Speakers

Laura H. Allen, Esq.
Sidley Austin LLP
—New York City

Jacquelin F. Drucker, Esq.
Arbitrator
—New York City

Ronald G. Dunn, Esq.
Gleason Dunn
Walsh & O’Shea
—Albany

John E. Higgins, Esq.
Nixon Peabody LLP
—Albany

Ira B. Lobel, Esq.
Arbitrator & Mediator
—Albany

Laurence S. Moy, Esq.
Outten & Golden LLP
—New York City

Rosemary A. Townley, Esq.
Arbitrator & Mediator
—Larchmont

Robert S. Whitman, Esq.
Seyfarth Shaw LLP
—New York City

Pearl Zuchlewski, Esq.
Kraus & Zuchlewski, LLP
—New York City

Total MCLE Credits  4.0
Ethics MCLE Credits 0.0

* Each additional person who uses the tapes for MCLE credit must purchase a copy of the “MCLE coursebook.”