by Donald R. McNeil | May 24, 2018 | Arbitration, Mediation
So, you take a case through a full Financial Industry Regulatory Authority arbitration hearing, receive a nice arbitration award, but the check to pay off the award never arrives. The well-known secret among attorneys working in this area is that investors that...
by Donald R. McNeil | Mar 7, 2018 | Arbitration, Mediation
Roger Bannister, the first man to run the mile in under four minutes, died earlier this week. For track aficionados like me, his story is for the ages. For those that participate in a mediation, his accomplishment demonstrates how human tenacity can make the...
by Donald R. McNeil | Feb 13, 2018 | Arbitration, Mediation
Love is in the air, everywhere I look around, love is in the air, every sight and every sound. When John Paul Young wrote these lyrics in 1979, he probably didn’t have the workplace in mind. But this Valentine’s Day will find love in the air at work....
by Donald R. McNeil | Nov 10, 2017 | Arbitration, Mediation
A prominent business litigation attorney (okay, it was Mike Mahoney) recently told me the story of two young men fighting over grandma’s apple pie. They could not agree on how to split up the pie. Each wanted to cut the pie their own way leaving the smaller...
by Donald R. McNeil | Oct 9, 2017 | Arbitration, Mediation
At the conclusion of a particularly acrimonious yet victorious trial, a client gave me a framed quote from Voltaire: “I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won.†I keep that picture in a prominent location in my office for all...
