By Jim Cooley The NCBA Dispute Resolution Section (DR Section) started as a committee of the NCBA which imagined a future, first, of court-ordered arbitration for small claims matters and, later, of court-ordered mediation of civil cases throughout the State’s Superior Court Division. Over time, the Committee successfully developed and implemented programs for the court-ordered […]

By Jim Cooley Jim Cooley here. Vice chairs, like vice presidents, don’t have much productive to do, so I thought I would give you a quick report on the Council’s December 1, 2021, meeting, and the upcoming events in March and May 2022. Mark your calendar for the section’s CLE on March 18 featuring Ken […]

By Tara Kozlowski The North Carolina Dispute Resolution Commission would like to share with the members of the NCBA Dispute Resolution Section amendments the Supreme Court of North Carolina made to the MSC Rules, FFS Rules, Clerk Rules, DRC Rules, and Standards of Professional Conduct. These amendments became effective on Oct. 1, 2021. The MSC […]

By Matt Van Sickle The NCBA Dispute Resolution Section will host a 6-hour CLE on March 11 and 12. The title of the program is “Who Are You? Pleased to Meet Me – What You Know About Yourself and Others, Consciously or Unconsciously,” and will include discussions of the psychology of dispute resolution, unconscious bias, […]

By Ketan P. Soni If you do any type of Zoom meetings with multiple people on a regular basis, go do an update right now. Why? There is a new feature that allows you to move the video tiles in whatever configuration you want. This doesn’t seem groundbreaking, but it is. To improve your Zoom […]