To all Hawaii ADR supporters,

  Next year’s ABA Section of Dispute Resolution’s annual spring conference, in New Orleans April 22-25, 2020, promises to be one of the best ever, a premier collection of diverse programs, an exceptional networking opportunity, and timed perfectly to enjoy the incredible New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival April 23-26 and April 30-May 3, 2020.

 The link to create and submit program proposals for the conference, and to the conference, is at:   https://www.americanbar.org/groups/dispute_resolution/events_cle/annual/conf_rfp/.  We hope that you and your colleagues will submit program proposals and join us at the conference.

 In addition to the DR Section’s conference, a group of us involved in commercial and public policy ADR, including the peerless Peter Adler, is putting together a special set of panel programs on innovative strategies in complex commercial and in complex public policy conflict resolution with and at Tulane Law School Sunday, April 26, 2020, after the DR Section’s conference.  If you may be interested in being part of those programs, please let me know and I’ll send you more information on them.  We hope to get together top ADR, corporate, government, consumer and other professionals to share stories, experiences and insights on innovative commercial and public policy conflict resolution that will not only enlighten but also inspire the law school and ADR communities, and to enable live-streaming and recording of these programs for educational uses and expanded outreach.  Initial responses from some top ADR people in various sectors have been enthusiastically receptive, subject of course to their schedules, and we hope to offer a diverse combination of experiences and perspectives.  Depending on interest, this could be a good opportunity for Hawaii ADR professionals to contribute to what we hope will be a valuable shared learning experience, and ACR Hawaii, the HSBA ADR Section, the Center for ADR and others would certainly be most welcome as nominal co-sponsors and planning committee participants, For both the commercial and public policy panel programs.

With Aloha,

          Chuck

More information is available at https://www.multiculturalsummit.org.

Earlybird deadline is December 1, 2018.

If you are interested, please contact Barbara at barbara@drmelamed.net.