From Our Readers, 0618 COBJ, Vol. 47, No. 6 Pg. 8
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Alternative Dispute Resolution, April 2018
I’d like to offer kudos to Jane Michaels for a really good treatise on the arbitration process and particularly the need for articulate arbitration clauses in contracts. [See “Effective Advocacy in Arbitration,” p. 26.] Tough I’ve had an occasional arbitration practice for many years, I mostly teach the subject at Daniels College of Business, and as such I spend a fair amount of time with business students both on understanding the need to draft well-thought arbitration clauses in business contracts and being “street smart” when in an arbitration. The next time I re-do my text for the ADR course, I hope I can get copyright clearance to include Jane’s article.
Jeff Bowen
Associate Teaching Professor Daniels College of Business
Bar News Highlight, May 2018
Dear Ms. Klein:
In response to your article “What Do Paralegals Do?” published in the May edition, I wonder if it was an intentional effort by Colorado Lawyer to highlight diversity in the paralegal work force by featuring an article written by a Latino man—or was it yet another example of the male-dominated world of law? The 2016 U.S. Census shows that the total paralegal/legal assistant workforce at that time was 396,120 citizens, with 339,340 of them being female. Thus, 85.7% of legal support staff in the United States were women in 2016—and I would wager that statistic has changed very little over the last two years.
Yet your magazine published an article...
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