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This week is spring break for CCSD and later on this week March Madness starts–making for what is usually a pretty quiet work week. Are any of you doing anything exciting? Do you avoid traveling this time of year? Or do you take advantage of this week where so many of your colleagues are out of town anyway? What travel recommendations do you have (besides Washington, D.C. for the annual bar conference)?
Like so many of you, I’m taking my kids with me to the bar conference in Washington, D.C. Every year, my kids beg to go on vacation to the bar conference. They love it!
For the lulz
I want to address an issue that perhaps I have been out of touch. Someone asked last week about settlement judges. I have generally favored private mediation because I am not sold on the quality of judges that you get in a settlement conference. However one of the local mediation organizations is charging on average $6000 for a 4 hour mediation(+2 hours of prep for the mediator). There is not a single mediator in this town worth $1000-$1500 an hour to conduct mediations.
In federal court I have no problem with the mag judges running the settlement conference. I had a case where the private mediator (a well-known neutral whose name comes up on this blog from time to time) was unable to settle the case and then the fed mag judge got a settlement. But I don’t have any experience with state-court judges mediating.
Almost everyone at Advanced Resolution Management is $750-1000 an hour. And they are fantastic.
Not sure how you sell a client that a mediator is worth $6000 for 4 hours of mediating in this town. Sorry that is outrageous.
Who is charging $6K for a half day? My experience is that $6K gets you all day at ARM.
Yes and both sides usually split it so $3,000 to get six or seven figures is worth it.
Correct
Togliatti is $6000 for half day and close to $9000 for a full day
Togliatti is worth every penny.
JAMS costs that every time.
I don’t recall Floyd Hale being that much
129 here. Floyd, while IMHO, is totally worth it. Used him last fall. Cost every bit of $6k for the half day.
I have had 3 final settlements as a result of the court appointed settlement judges. They all did a good job.
A full day at ARM was $6000 PER SIDE a few months ago. Getting outrageous
Real lawyers don’t settle. What’s wrong with you all? I sure miss the 80s!
I think you are going to start seeing people be price conscious about their mediators. If Stew Bell is $6000 for a half day and Jim Crockett is $4000 for a half day, I think people are going to have to start advising their clients that one has an effective date of $1000 an hour and one has an effective rate of $1500 an hour.
Crockett for $4K? Are you people ok? Blink twice if you need help…..I would not let him pay me $4k a day to participate in his mediation…lord help us all!
If you have older clients, Crockett is very effective in a settlement conference.
I have always appreciated Crockett, as a practitioner, a jurist and as a mediator.
https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/politics-and-government/clark-county/state-bar-of-nevada-issues-public-reprimand-to-commissioner-jones-3322693
Hooge asked for Jones to be disbarred. Panel gave him a public reprimand. I didn’t follow this closely, but it seems like there was some kind of miscalculation by Hooge along the way.
I would assume the disbarment was based on this being a pattern of bad acts, but then the prior acts were excluded when Jones prevailed on his motion to exclude them. So lowering this to a public reprimand makes sense if you are looking at it as a one off.
Hooge was going for disbarment irrespective of the “prior bad acts” – which were excluded when the judge over the case said he did nothing wrong. Hooge was on a crusade and he was just wrong. Deleting texts is one thing but going after Jones for “illicit” deals (no money changing hands) related to politics was an overreach. Every lobbyist that is part of a law firm would be disbarred if this standard was imposed.
“Justin Jones doesn’t deserve to stand among us, not after this, not after he deleted those texts to save himself,” Hooge said. “He lied to cover it up, and now he’s continuing with this story that’s ridiculously unbelievable on its face.”
This quote from the RJ suggests that Hooge was going for disbarment based on the texts, not just the “bribery.” Anyway, I don’t know what it is about that quote, but it sure comes off sanctimonious. “doesn’t deserve to stand among us.” Ick.
Reprimand seems a bit light, but Hooge was way off base. Was he accustomed to asking for the death penalty for misdemeanors up there in Lincoln County?
We will schedule your next temper tantrum for when the Supreme Court finds that the panel was too lenient and imposes much harsher sanctions on Jones.
You are two years too late. The days of Swinging Jim shooting down every discipline order as too lenient are over. This Public Reprimand will sail through the NSC because this entire process has been very public and had very obvious collateral consequences on Jones. I don’t trust Justin as far as I can throw him. But this public reprimand will stand at the Nevada Supreme Court.