A Luncheon Seminar conducted by Daniel Q. Posin Professor of Law Tulane Law School
	Tuesday, June 8 11:45 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. World Trade Center, Suite 2900 (Free validated parking  in the WTC Garage)

The rise of global business necessarily entails the rise of global disputes. Mediation is a flexible and powerful tool that is well-designed for the resolution of international business disputes -- between buyers and sellers, exporters and importers, manufacturers and distributors, shippers and carriers, investors and their joint venture partners, and other parties to all types of international commercial transactions.

The value of mediation lies in its avoidance of some of the hazards of litigation or arbitration: costs, risk of a poor result, delay, and personal stress. Perhaps the greatest benefit is that the parties never get a result they have not agreed to; instead, they are fully empowered as to the process and the result.

The purpose of this seminar is to explain the commercial mediation process and the basic elements and tactics involved, and to overlay it with the additional complex issues -- and the ultimate benefits -- that international business mediation presents.

Daniel Q. Posin is the Judge Rene’ H. Himel Professor of Law at Tulane Law School. Mr. Posin has been on the Tulane Law School Faculty since 1990, and has over 25 years of law school teaching experience in the areas of corporate, business, securities, tax, and negotiation and mediation of business problems. He also teaches negotiation and mediation of international business problems in Tulane's summer programs abroad. He is the author of Mediating International Business Disputes," forthcoming in the Fordham Journal of Corporate and Financial Law. Mr. Posin is also a member of the Tulane University Mediation Group, performing mediations within the university. He has consulted widely for local and national, and international law firms on a broad range of business and corporate problems. He has served as special counsel to the corporate section of a leading New Orleans law firm and is an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association, the National Association of Securities Dealers and the National Arbitration Forum.

Mr. Posin received a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1963 - Phi Beta Kappa, Distinction in General Studies; an M.A. (Economics) from Yale University in 1967; a J.D. from Yale Law School 1967; and a LL.M. (Taxation) from New York University Law School in 1975. He received Mediation Training at the A.A. White Dispute Resolution Center at the University of Houston; Pepperdine University Law School; and Mediation Arbitration Professional Systems, Inc. (MAPS).

In Cooperation With

 

Ark-La-Tex Regional Export & Technology Center

Baton Rouge Center for World Affairs

Consular Corps of New Orleans

French-American Chamber of Commerce

Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Louisiana

International Freight Forwarders and Customs Brokers Association of New Orleans

International Trade Council/Red River Region

Louisiana District Export Council

Louisiana International Trade Center/SBDC

Louisiana Tax Free Shopping

Louisiana Technology Council

Propeller Club, Port of New Orleans

World Affairs Council of New Orleans

World Trade Club of Greater New Orleans

Cost: $30 for members of the sponsoring organizations and companies.  $35 for non-members.

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