Schedule

Geoff Drucker, Senior Director of Dispute Resolution Service, American Health Law Association
Asha B. Scielzo, AHLA President, American University Washington College of Law

Maury Heller, Foster Garvey PC

• Key Steps
• Legal Overlay
• Tailoring the process to specific situations

Mary Austin, Mary K. Austin Attorney at Law

• Options and Processes for Arbitrator Selection
• Communications between Parties and Arbitrators
• Arbitrator disclosures
• Codes of Arbitrator ethics

Mary Austin, Mary K. Austin Attorney at Law

• Handout with ethics-based scenarios for analysis and group discussion

Myra Selby, Ice Miller LLP

• Scope of Arbitrator authority
• Jurisdiction determinations
• Role of Arbitrator
• AHLA rules that support Arbitrator in making determination
• Managed arbitrations

Myra Selby, Ice Miller LLP

• Handout with 9 questions on authority and process for analysis and group discussion

Mary Austin, Mary K. Austin Attorney at Law

• The Rule 5.4 Status Conference
• Procedural issues
• Substantive issues
• Fact Discovery
• Expert Witnesses Disclosures and Discovery
• Non-Party Subpoenas
• Motion Practice
• The Scheduling Order

Maury Heller, Foster Garvey PC

• Pre-hearing submissions
• Opening and closing arguments
• Evidence: ground rules and guidelines
• Managing time and emotions
• Closing and reopening the hearing

Maury Heller, Foster Garvey PC

Geoff Drucker and Trainers

• Serving as an AHLA neutral
  • Joining the roster
  • Positioning yourself for success
  • Frequently asked questions
• Understanding AHLA’s rules of procedure for arbitration
• Managing challenging situations
  • Pro se (unrepresented) parties
  • Uncooperative parties or unruly behavior
  • Sanctions in arbitration

Geoff Drucker, Senior Director of Dispute Resolution Service, American Health Law Association

• What is unconscious bias
• What causes bias
• Best practices for deciding fairly

Paul Risner, Paul E. Risner PA

• Interim Orders
• Partial Final Awards
• Form / framework of awards
• AHLA rules on awards
• Drafting of awards
• Corrections

Paul Risner, Paul E. Risner PA

• Analysis and group discussion of drafting an award based on a hypothetical set of facts

Paul Risner, Paul E Risner PA

• Basic terms and concepts
• Distinctive features
• Establishing ground rules for production of ESI
• Sampling

Myra Selby, Ice Miller LLP

• Confirmation of the award
• Vacating an award
• Application of state law
• Application of Federal Arbitration Act (FAA)
• Limitations of review and manifest of disregard of the law
• Appellate consideration

Geoff Drucker and Trainers