POPVOX is an innovative advocacy platform that meshes legislative data with individuals’ personal stories and sentiment. Winner of the social media category in the 2011 SxSW BizSpark Accelerator startup competition, POPVOX delivers public input to Congress in a format tailored to actionable policy decisions and empowers users to leverage their expertise and numbers. POPVOX provides a legislative dashboard for Congress and government affairs professionals with bill status information, customized...
Founded and built legal publishing company Fastcase, which pioneered citation analysis, data visualization, mobile apps, and eBooks for legal research. Responsible for strategic direction with special emphasis on product development, finance, business development, and licensing.
The Marie L. Garibaldi American Inn of Court for ADR is the first (and so far the only) Inn of Court devoted expressly to the practice of arbitration, mediation and other non-judicial means of dispute resolution. Located in New Jersey, it gathers, on a monthly basis, the upper echelon of retired and active judges, client representatives, and leading arbitrators and mediators to share experiences and insights, to stay abreast of recent case developments, and to hone instincts and skills as dispute...
The federal government spent more than $4 billion to resolve lawsuits last year, a $1.3 billion increase from spending in 2011, an analysis of government records shows.
The 7,000 payments, which are detailed in an obscure database overseen by the Treasury Department known as the Judgment Fund, tell a story of the federal government's inner workings. They highlight often devastating mistakes made by government workers — such as the air-traffic controller who was allegedly making a personal phone...
Stryker Orthopaedics and some of the 133 people suing the company will attempt to settle claims related to the Mahwah company's recalled hip implants through mediation.
Each side will pick five cases for mediation, said Ellen Renkin, an attorney for Weitz and Luxenberg, a law firm representing several of the plaintiffs. If that goes well, more of the cases may take the mediation route.
Earlier this month, Judge Brian R. Martinotti ordered both sides to pick a panel of six third-party mediators....