Accreditation, ADR, COVID-19, Dispute Resolution, Online Dispute Resolution (ODR), Online Mediation, Skills, Technology, Uncategorized

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Online courses have been around on the internet for decades now. You can learn almost everything you want online, and multiple online learning platforms such as Udemy, Skillshare, Coggno, or Skillwise give you an infinite choice of courses that you can take from the comfort of your home, when you want, and at your own…

ADR, Brazil, Confidentiality, Confidentiality and Transparency, Dispute Resolution, Online Dispute Resolution (ODR), Online Mediation, Uncategorized

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I am very glad to start today a 4 posts serie with my fellow Gustavo Carneiro, a lawyer and mediator who holds a Public Policy degree, analyzing the new brazilian General Data Protection Law, which will come into force in August 2020 and its application for ODR. Online Mediation and other ODR methods are getting…

ADR, Artificial Intelligene, Brazil, Consumer conciliation, Dispute Resolution, Online Dispute Resolution (ODR), Online Mediation, Technology

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I am very happy to share with all of you that on October 28 – 30 I will take part on the 2019 International ODR Forum, in Williamsburg, Virginia, USA, with some of the most outstanding ODR’s thought leaders as Colin Rule, Paul Embley, Daniel Rainey, Ethan Katsh and Orna Rabinovich-Einy, among others. I will…

Brazil, Dispute Resolution, Environmental disputes, Environmental Mediation, Online Dispute Resolution (ODR), Online Mediation

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I owe my recent participation in a very challenging project to my dear friend and mediation partner, Constança Madureira. For some time, she has been able to build a career as a lawyer and associate it with an extensive and respected professional background in the hotel and lodging industry. Having worked in top executive positions…

ADR, Brazil, Co-mediation, Commercial Mediation, Dispute Resolution, lawyers in mediation, Young Mediators

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Last month, we had the presence of Ahdieh (Ati) Alipour Herisi in Brazil as a judge for the occasion of the CPR International Mediation Competition . Ati is a young, enthusiastic and brilliant lawyer and mediator who was born in Iran and lived, studied and worked in many different places such as Los Angeles, New…

ADR, Brazil, Class action, Dispute Resolution, mediated settlement agreement

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On January 25th 2019 Brazil experienced its largest industrial catastrophe, the collapse of a dam from Vale, one of the world’s largest Mining Company. The disaster devastated the town of Brumadinho, in Minas Gerais. It was of such magnitude that, until March 8th, the day I write this post, there were 193 confirmed deaths and…

Brazil, Communication, Email, Language, Leaders, Negotiation, Non-violent communication, Online Mediation, Skills, Social intelligence, Social Media, Technology, Trust

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On first of January 2019, Jair Bolsonaro became Brazil’s 38th President. After years of economic, political and even a social crisis in Brazil, the right wing politician has the mission of unifying the country after the most polarized elections in our history. Similarly to what is happening in other parts of the world, the new…

ADR, Communication, Dialogue, Dispute Resolution, Negotiation, Non-violent communication, Online Dispute Resolution (ODR), Online Mediation

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Online negotiators are often faced with the challenge of how to overcome barriers on communication. When in real life (or better, when in non digital life) body language, voice tone and appearance enrich the communication process giving more tools for both communicators to express and understand the message, therefore making any negotiation more fluid and…

Brazil, Dispute Resolution, Efficiency, Online Dispute Resolution (ODR), Online Mediation, Uncategorized

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The arrival of the internet age has posed many new challenges as a larger part of the economy has started to operate online and transnationally with a new emerging framework. After the spread of the global computer network and the rise of online business activities and operations, it became necessary for disputes between contracting parties…

Brazil, Dispute Resolution, Lawyers, lawyers in mediation, Legislation

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Brazil is on its way to making lawyers mandatory on mediation procedures. Last month the House of Representatives approved a bill (PL 5.511/2016) that reads, in a free translation, “it is mandatory the presence of Lawyers in consensual dispute resolution procedures, such as mediation and conciliation”. Now the Senate will analyze the subject before it…