Partner Alexander Oddy, of London's Herbert Smith, discusses his firm's study on how business uses ADR.

Frederick T. Davis, a Paris-based partner of Debevoise & Plimpton, discusses legal and cultural differences across jurisdictions on document production issues.

Host Mike McIlwrath discusses the current commercial mediation scene with experts in three European countries.

Prof. Walde, who died in an accident just days after this interview, discusses effective tactics in front of the tribunal.

Host Michael McIlwrath critically examines two PriceWaterhouseCoopers arbitration use surveys with Prof. Loukas Mistelis, of the Queen Mary School of Law, University of London's School of International Arbitration.

Sociologist Robert L. Carneiro, of the American Museum of Natural History, returns to IDN to discuss the next 400 years, or so, of dispute resolution.

Host Mike McIlwrath discusses cross-cultural communications with veteran Australian mediator Joanna Kalowski.

IDN host Michael McIlwrath interviews his own boss, Kenneth S. Resnick, vice president and general counsel of GE Oil & Gas in Florence, Italy, on the the company's litigation and resolution challenges.

In the second of two parts, host Mike McIlwrath speaks with Santa Monica attorney-neutral-educator Kenneth Cloke on creating trust between parties in conflict.

This week's guest is attorney-neutral-educator Kenneth Cloke, for the first of a two-part conversation, on mediation style, processes . . . and hormones.

Host Michael McIlwrath discusses the politics of disputes with Jenny Beer, author of the seminal, cross-discipline guide, The Mediator's Handbook, which she co-authored in 1982.

Australian mediator John Wade returns to IDN to discuss mediation strategies to get around the hard bargainers, the obstructionists, the stone-wallers, and the naysayers.

ICC Counsel Francesca Mazza discusses case management in the second of two parts.

ENI Counsel Massimo Mantovani discusses in-house litigation and arbitration case management.

Bay area educator and consultant Clark Freshmen discusses how he trains people to spot emotions in negotiation. "It's like mind reading," says Mike McIlwrath. It's also about lie detection. Freshman is a consultant at the noted authorities on the subject, Oakland, Calif.'s Paul Ekman Group. This week's podcast discusses facial muscles, eyebrows, early indicators of anger, and other signs of "universal expressions of emotions."

Bennett G. Picker of Philadelphia's Stradley Ronon discusses how his firm earned the CPR Institute's first Law Firm Award.

ICC Counsel Francesca Mazza discusses case management in the first of two parts.

Attorney Sai-Yeang Ng, of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, discusses ADR and litigation in her country's courts.

London practitioner Sophie Nappert analyzes the broad spectrum of arbitrator biases.

This week, IDN features party negotiation strategies from veteran mediator/trainer Bennett G. Picker, see <a href="http://www.stradley.com/bios.php?action=view&id=104" target="_blank">Ben's bio</a>, a partner in Philadelphia's Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP.

This week Mike is joined by Australian John Wade, an educator and practitioner, who tells us about "truly terrifying" negotiation adversaries and when you need to walk away, permanently. For more background, see <a href="http://epublications.bond.edu.au/john_wade/" target="_blank">John Wade</a>.

This week, Mike is joined by Harvard Business School's Michael A. Wheeler, a leading negotiation author and theorist. (See <a href="http://drfd.hbs.edu/fit/public/facultyInfo.do?facInfo=bio&facEmId=mwheeler" target="_blank">Michael A. Wheeler</a>) They share detailed anecdotes on how companies-"engines that generate disputes"-practice conflict resolution via elaborate institutionalized systems, by finding creative measures, and even "down and dirty" fast processes. And they discuss why being a "Lucky General" isn't really a good way of supervising negotiating executives and managers.

This week, Mike discusses current arbitration practice trends with Jason Fry, who took over last October as Secretary General of the International Chamber of Commerce's International Court of Arbitration in Paris. Jason provides insights into the nature of ICC cases and administration, and an overview of operations at one of the leading international ADR providers.

Mike examines ADR in the booming Singapore economy with Christopher Lau, a senior counsel at Three Verulam Buildings, which is a London-based barristers' chambers. Christopher is in the firm's Singapore office, and is a Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators, the United Kingdom's Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration.

This week, IDN examines the dispute resolution methods of early societies, and how they evolved in the last 10,000 years into the mechanisms that we see in today's functioning societies: Mike's guest is American Museum of Natural History curator, anthropologist Robert L. Carniero (see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_L._Carneiro" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_L._Carneiro</a>).

Mike talks with Zaid Al-Ali, who is advising the United Nations on legal developments in Iraq, on drafting a new Iraqi constitution and efforts at improving Iraq's methods for dealing with international commercial disputes.

This week, join Mike for a discussion with former law firm partner Mark Kantor, of Washington, D.C., as he discusses his move to full-time arbitrator, and the ins-and-outs of putting together an international arbitration tribunal, including everything from the logistics to the ethics rules.

This week, Mike discusses litigation, mediation, and arbitration in Greece with attorney Pericles Stroubos.

This week, join Mike as he discusses the state of the art of Dutch mediation with Manon Schonewille, managing director of ACB Mediation Corporate Conflict Management, in the Hague, Netherlands.

This week, join Mike and Richard Naimark, senior vice president of the American Arbitration Association. Richard oversees the AAA's International Centre for Dispute Resolution. He discusses the ADR market for big providers and regional organizations, as well as the growth of ad hoc arbitration.

This week, Mike talks with John Heaps, a partner in Eversheds' London office who oversees the firm's litigation team. John explains the firm's unique conflict resolution practices, including how 350 Eversheds attorneys got conflict resolution educations and fresh diplomas. He also discusses the firm's project management approach, which has earned Eversheds its position as sole litigation provider for a major multinational corporation, and, last year, an honorable mention for the inaugural 2007 CPR Law Firm. See <a href="http://www.cpradr.org/CPR_LawFirmAwd07.asp?M=1.7">http://www.cpradr.org/CPR_LawFirmAwd07.asp?M=1.7</a>.

This week, Mike examines the Arbitration Tribunal of Barcelona, an example of a smaller regional ADR provider that is carving out its own provider niche in a business long dominated by a few big players.

Mike talks with attorneys from France and Italy in a discussion on using litigation expert witnesses. This podcast addresses expertise proceedings and "technical consultings" in the respective countries, and how these practices affect litigation and settlement.

Mike visits Mumbai to look at the growth of legal process outsourcing. This controversial method of reducing litigation costs in common law systems, like the United States and the United Kingdom, sends legal work to India. Mike talks with an entrepreneur founder of outsourcing firm <a href="http://www.pangea3.com/index.html">Pangea3</a>, and one of its top managers, who say that their outsourcing business is growing at a rate of 200% a year.

Mike talks with Prof. Dwight Golann, of Boston's Suffolk University Law School, on how mediation attorney-advocates and parties can "borrow" from the mediator to serve their case better.

Join Mike as he speaks with Eva Horvath, a veteran Budapest educator and practitioner, in a wide-ranging discussion on Eastern European ADR, locally and across borders.

Join Mike for a conversation with Debevoise & Plimpton partner David W. Rivkin about the "Town Elder" international arbitration reform model.

Join Mike and CPR President Kathy Bryan as they discuss with Lord Woolf the ADR-centric civil justice reforms he spearheaded in the United Kingdom.

Join Mike as he discusses arbitration, mediation, and the way business deals with litigation in India with Delhi attorney Lira Goswami.

Join Mike as he discusses he discusses getting parties to the mediation table in cross-border business disputes with Karl Mackie, the longtime chief executive of London's leading ADR provider, the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution.

This week Michael McIlwrath speaks with Northrop Grumman's Legal Director-Europe, Wolf von Kumberg in London

Join Mike as he discusses with JAMS' general counsel, Jay Welsh, how great mediators pull parties together in difficult business cases.

Join Mike as he discusses why ADR is essential for Russian business deals with Tim Hardy, a partner at CMS Cameron McKenna in London, and Irena Vanenkova, a Moscow mediator.

This week Michael McIlwrath discusses mediating with Arbitration Institutions: The ICDR and the ICC.

This week Michael McIlwrath gets a Texan perspective on International Arbitration.

SPECIAL!! This week PBS debuts of an installment of Nova, "Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial." The two-hour documentary explores the landmark Pennsylvania case of Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, which tested the constitutionality of teaching intelligent design in science class. Cameras were not allowed in the courtroom, so NOVA hired actors to re-enact portions of the trial, using verbatim excerpts from the court transcripts. For more information on the program, local schedules, and to view the program online, please visit http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/id.

This week Michael McIlwrath speaks with Antonio Tavares about Dispute Resolution in Brazil.

This week Michael McIlwrath speaks with Thierry Garby about International Mediation.

This week Michael McIlwrath speaks with Tom Sikora, Senior Counsel of El Paso Corp.

First of a series - Michael McIlwrath speaks with Emmanuel Gaillard on International Arbitration.

An IDN Introduction: Mike McIlwrath talks with CPR Senior Vice President F. Peter Phillips