Conflict Resolution Week (Oct. 14-18)

Conflict Resolution Day Celebration
Arbitration: Where it's been, where it's going
Thursday, Oct. 17, 4-6 p.m.
MBA Zoom Webinar

Join the Massachusetts Bar Association’s Dispute Resolution Section as we virtually celebrate Conflict Resolution Day.

A panel of outstanding dispute resolution (DR) professionals will share their knowledge of the arbitration process and how it has changed over the years.

The panel will be preceded by a short presentation on Conflict Resolution Day by the DR Section Council and the reading of a proclamation issued by Governor Maura Healey.  Afterward, Arnold Zack will receive the 2024 Professor Frank E.A. Sander Award in Dispute Resolution, honoring the memory and legacy of Frank Sander, a luminary in the field of conflict resolution.

The event will also pay tribute to Judge Paul Chernoff, an accomplished ADR neutral who passed away in 2024, presented by former Sander Award recipient Judge John Cratsley (ret).

Panelists include:

• MODERATOR:
  • Katherine A. Hesse, Esq., Arbitrator & Mediator, Murphy, Hesse, Toomey & Lehane LLP, Quincy
    
• PANELISTS:
  • Arnold M. Zack, Esq., Arbitrator & Mediator
  • Mark L. Irvings, Esq., Arbitrator and Mediator, Murphy, Hesse, Toomey & Lehane LLP, Quincy
  • Timothy S. Taylor, Esq., Arbitrator & Mediator, Scheinman Arbitration & Mediation Services, Port Washington, NY

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More on Arnold M. Zack, Esq.

Arnold Zack has demonstrated extraordinary leadership, innovation and dedication in the dispute resolution field for more than 60 years. His established contributions in labor relations, employment arbitration and mediation and beyond, are legion. In addition to the over the 5,000 arbitrations and mediations he has handled, are the many books he has authored, courses he has taught, arbitrators and mediators he has mentored, and the many countries and fields of practice which have benefited from his experience and dedication.

Arnold Zack’s intellectual and moral leadership have been an integral part of building a superior cadre of experienced arbitrators and mediators locally, nationally and across the world.  Notably, he created a code of ethics for arbitrators now widely used globally.  Arnold Zack has been a member of six Presidential Emergency Boards, three of which he chaired. He is a member of the Steering Committee for the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, has served as a  consultant for  Australia, Cambodia, Greece, Israel, Italy, Philippines and South Africa, the International Monetary Fund, the InterAmerican Development Bank and the UN Development Program. A graduate of Tufts Univ. and Yale Law, he taught the first ADR course at Yale Law and for many years in a program of Harvard Law. He also served as President of the National Academy of Arbitrators.

To read more about our honoree, Arnold Zack, click here or here.