Specialty Group: Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution

Contact: Jill Bainbridge; Blake Morgan (Southampton, England) Dispute Resolution analysis: The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has rejected a complaint by one of Joseph Stalin's grandsons about an article that ...

Contact: William A. Goldberg; Lerch, Early & Brewer (Maryland, USA) I often see attorneys make the mistake of filing "kitchen sink" complaints, that is, lawsuits containing redundant and/or superfluous causes of actio ...

Contact: Prof. Dr. H. Ercument Erdem; Erdem & Erdem (Turkey) With respect to International Chamber of Commerce ("ICC") arbitration, consolidation is a procedural mechanism used when two or more pending arbitrations ...

Contact: Att. Ezgi Babur; Erdem & Erdem (Turkey) The determination of the seat of arbitration is of great importance, due to its consequences on the arbitration procedure. In the International Chamber of Commerce ( ...