PRELIMINARY CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

April 17, 2010 at Columbia Law School, Jerome Greene Hall, Room 104
 
09:00 a.m. -09:30 a.m.
Registration & Light Breakfast
 
09:30 a.m. -10:50 a.m.
Panel 1: Consolidation / Joinder of Arbitrations
 
Moderator: Nikolaus Pitkowitz (Graf & Pitkowitz, Vienna)
Robert L. Sills (Orrick, NY)
Kevin O'Gorman (Fulbright & Jaworski, Houston, TX)
Dietmar W. Prager (Debevoise & Plimpton, NY)
 

10:50 a.m. -11:20 a.m.
Coffee Break 1
 
11:20 a.m. -12:40 p.m.
Panel 2: Beauty Show - Multiparty Rules in Institutional Arbitration
 
Moderator: David M. Lindsey (Chaffetz Lindsey, NY)
Christian P. Alberti (ICDR, NY)
John Wilkinson, Esq. (JAMS, NY)
Lorraine M. Brennan (CPR, Georgetown Law School, Washington, D.C.)
Victoria Shannon (ICC North America)
 

12:40 p.m. -1:00 p.m.
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Columbia Arbitration Day Group Photo (Stairs of Low Library)
Buffet Lunch at the Conference Center
 
2:30 p.m. -3:50 p.m.
Panel 3: Class Action Arbitration: Why and How To Do It
 
Moderator:Glenn P. Hendrix (ABA Section of International Law Chair; Arnall Golden Gregory, Atlanta, GA)
Prof. Peter L. Murray (Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA)
Barton Legum (Salans, Paris)
Ryan C. Reetz (Squire Sanders, Miami, FL)
 

3:50 p.m. -4:20 p.m.
Coffee Break 2
 
4:20 p.m. -5:40 p.m.
Panel 4: Class Action Arbitration: Structure & Management of Complex Class Action Arbitrations
 
Moderator:Prof.Linda J. Silberman(New York University, NY)
Prof. George A. Bermann (Columbia Law School, NY)
Gerald Aksen, Esq. (International Arbitrator, NY)
William H. Baker (Cardozo Law School; Alston+Bird, NY)
 

5:45 p.m. -7:45 p.m.
Evening Cocktail Reception