The Mediation Imperative: Why Successful Companies Cannot Afford To Ignore Mediation- Video
Bradford A. Berenson is Vice President and Senior Counsel for Litigation and Legal Policy at General Electric Company with responsibility for litigation, government and internal investigations, compliance and legal policy on a worldwide basis.
A former litigator and Partner of Sidley Austin LLP, Mr.Berenson also served as Associate Counsel to the President of the United States in the White House Counsel’s office from 20012003, when among other responsibilities, he worked on the policy initiatives and litigation arising from the attacks of September 11, 2001.
Mr.Berenson graduated summa cum laude with a degree in History from Yale College, and magna cum laude
from Harvard Law School, where he was Supreme Court Editor of the Harvard Law Review.
At the Singapore Mediation Lecture in 2014 he said:
„Thank you all very much for attending, for the kind introduction and the warm welcome. And my sincere thanks to the sponsors of this evening’s event.
This is the third annual Singapore Mediation Lecture. The inaugural Lecture in 2012 was delivered by the distinguished sixth President of Singapore Mr.S.R. Nathan. The second, last year, was given by one of the world’s great reforming jurists in the modern era, Lord Woolf of Barnes.
Since I am likely to be a complete unknown to most people in this room, you may well be wondering whether this third Lecture will be either a misfortune or a calamity.
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Among the many remarks Lord Woolf made in last year’s lecture, one for me really stood out. He was referring to international arbitration in general. I quote, with his permission,his words, because I cannot express the point better:
„I have over the years found among the arbitration industry a remarkable reluctance about promoting mediation and its deployment. … I find the reasons advanced for this worryingly unsatisfactory. If this is due in any way to supposed self -interest, this is mistaken. Parties to commercial litigation are increasingly becoming jaundiced as to the rising costs of commercial litigation.
If increased use of mediation reduces the average cost of arbitration, this would increase the popularity of both.”
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