The Court ODR Podcast

The Evolution of Court ODR with JJ Prescott, Professor of Law at the University of Michigan (Episode 6)

In this episode of the Court ODR Podcast Colin interviews J.J. Prescott, the Henry King Ransom Professor of Law at the University of Michigan. JJ founded Court Innovations Inc. and developed Matterhorn, an online dispute resolution platform that helps people facing warrants, fines, minor charges, and other legal issues resolve their disputes with the government and other parties online and without the need to hire an attorney. Colin and JJ discuss the development of court ODR, lessons learned, and the potential for new approaches (such as asynchronous evaluative processes) moving forward.
Much of JJ's research is empirical in focus, so the podcast also touches on data collection and continuing evaluation of court ODR. JJ's current research projects include exploring the role of technology in improving access to justice and legal decision-making; studying the consequences of criminal record expungement and record-clearing reform; measuring the importance and role of noncompetition agreements in the US labor force; evaluating the effects of prosecutorial discretion and decision-making on short- and long-term defendant outcomes, including disparities; and investigating the nature and repercussions of partial settlements in litigation.
More about JJ: https://michigan.law.umich.edu/faculty-and-scholarship/our-faculty/jj-prescott
JJ's article "Next Steps in Online Courts: Accelerating Access To Justice Through Court Technology Through Court Technology" from the Alaska Law Review (discussed in the podcast): https://repository.law.umich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4067&context=articles
 

What should we call court users? with Katherine Alteneder, Director Emerita of SRLN (Episode 5)

In this episode Colin chats with Katherine Alteneder, Director Emerita of the Self-Represented Litigation Network (SRLN, now called the a2jnetwork) about the best words to refer to court users (e.g. parties? litigants? users? plaintiffs/defendants? customers?)
Katherine is currently Principal at Alteneder Consulting, where she provides independent consulting services on matters relating to judicial ethics, court rules, geospatial analysis, digital inclusion, and the optimization of technology. She is a well known national leader on strategies for systemic advocacy and reform to build more equitable and inclusive justice systems for people without lawyers, and thereby improve public trust and confidence in the judicial branch.As the executive director of SRLN for nine years, Katherine built a vibrant community of over 2,000 lawyers, judges, policy makers, technologists, researchers, and allied professionals who share a vision of transforming the American legal system to ensure access to justice for all. Under her leadership, SRLN developed and disseminated best practices, tools, and resources for court self-help services, remote service delivery, plain language communication, and user-centered design. SRLN is now called the Access to Justice Network, and if you're passionate about these issues and you haven't already signed up we encourage you to do so ASAP.
More about Katherine: https://www.srln.org/node/37/katherine-alteneder
Sign up for the Access to Justice Network (a2jnetwork) here: https://a2jnetwork.org/
 

Graham Ross - Inside the Mediation Room Episode #4

This is the fourth episode of Michael and Karen Aurit's podcast "Inside the Mediation Room," devoted to hearing stories and insights from some of the world's most experienced mediators and dispute resolvers. In this episode their guest is Graham Ross, an experienced mediator and the United Kingdom's leading pioneer in online dispute resolution (ODR). Graham co-founded the first ODR service in the UK, WeCanSettle, and designed the blind bidding software at the heart of the system. Graham subsequently founded TheMediationRoom.com, for whom he designed their online mediation platform. Graham speaks regularly at international conferences on the impact of the law on the Internet and e-commerce and on the application of technology to ADR. Graham was host of the 5th International Conference on Online Dispute Resolution held in Liverpool, UK, in 2007. 

Susan Guthrie and Woody Mosten - Inside the Mediation Room Episode #3

This is the third episode of Michael and Karen Aurit's video podcast "Inside The Mediation Room," devoted to hearing stories and insights from some of the world's most experienced mediators and dispute resolvers. In this episode their guests are Susan Guthrie and Woody Mosten, co-founders of Mosten Guthrie Academy: https://mostenguthrie.com/

Bill Eddy - Inside the Mediation Room Episode #2

This is the second episode of Michael and Karen Aurit's video podcast "Inside The Mediation Room," devoted to hearing stories and insights from some of the world's most experienced mediators and dispute resolvers. In this episode their guest is Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq., who developed the high conflict personality theory to explain the driving forces behind people who present the most challenging behaviors. He is an expert on managing disputes involving high conflict situations and 5 high conflict personality types, including a subset of those with narcissistic, borderline, antisocial, histrionic, and paranoid personality disorders. He has trained over 200,000 professionals in 10 countries on understanding and managing high conflict disputes.

Don Saposnek - Inside the Mediation Room Episode #1

This is the first episode of Michael and Karen Aurit's video podcast "Inside The Mediation Room," devoted to hearing stories and insights from some of the world's most experienced mediators and dispute resolvers. In this episode their guest is the legendary Don T. Saposnek, Ph.D., a clinical-child psychologist and family therapist in practice since 1971, and a child custody and family mediator and national and international trainer and consultant in child psychology and mediation since 1977. He was director of the family court services in Santa Cruz County for 17 years and has mediated over 5,000 child custody and visitation cases in both the public and private sectors. He has published extensively in the professional literature on children and families and is the author of a number of books on the topics of children, families, divorce, and mediation.