Company law and arbitration are very much related.
The seminar organized by the French Arbitration Committee (CFA - Comité Français de l'Arbitrage) with the training center of the University Panthéon-Assas has been successuflly handled.
Expériences have been discussed and viewpoints have been explained by specialists in this field.
Mediation : alternative dispute resolution. Does it really work? How? What are the advantages? How does it really work in practice? Who are the mediators?
The practice of mediation triggers a lot of questions.
VDV AVOCATS organizes this conference to answer those questions, for its clients and business partners.
This 25th October 2012, the PARIS Bar has organized the colloque « GENERATION MEDIATION: justice is changing, and you? ».
This colloque was the opportunity to remind to the audience that mediation is an interesting mechanism, adapted to multiple areas of law (such as, but not only business law, family law, intellectual law), and ensuring economic performance.
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Fabienne van der Vleugel has begun to develop mediation in her law firm as from 2008.
At that time, she has opened a specific department for mediation in her law firm and she has participated to various mediation trainings, in France and abroad.
In 2012, the law firm VDV AVOCATS has moved into newly build offices especially designed notably to allow the professional and confidential organization of plenary and private sessions for international or national mediations.
In her quality of attorney at law, specialist in company law, Fabienne van der Vleugel systematically explains to her clients what are the characteristics of mediation. If clients decide to have recourse to this alternative dispute resolution (ADR), she may accompany them throughout the whole process.
As accredited mediator in France, Belgium, UK and Luxembourg, Fabienne van der Vleugel is regularly appointed as mediator either by the judge (judicial mediation), the parties (ad hoc mediation) or by the institution (e.g. : IEAM, ICC ADR, bMediation, CIArb, CMCC).
She is also participating to multiple conferences as speaker, notably the International Forum for the mediation centres and the international competition for commercial mediation organized by the ICC.
Read more: http://www.avocatparis.org
The Forum of Mediation Centres was created in 2001 by the Mediation and Conflict Prevention Commission of the UIA (Union Internationale des Avocats).
The Forum brings together the most important commercial mediation and ADR (Alternative Dispute Resolution) centres from around the world and offers an occasion to exchange views on the development of ADR and best practices.
It is also an occasion for centres to collaborate on specific programmes.
The meeting in Zagreb was the 17th since the creation of the Forum.
During this meeting, Fabienne van der Vleugel participated to a practical and interactive session during which experienced mediators have discussed various specific aspects of mediation, with concrete examples.
The purpose of this session consisted in triggering discussions, debates and questions with the mediators of the audience in order to share experiences and compare viewpoints on topics such as:
• Abuse of mediation – How can a mediator prevent it?
• Agreement to mediate and mediation agreement: who is writing what, and how?
• Being an attorney-mediator: issues relating to conflict of interest, impartiality, neutrality, invoicing and liability dilemmas under the professional ethical regulations
• Being a judge and a mediator, two separate functions?
Read more: http://www.uianet.org
During this "P'tit déj/Débat", VDV AVOCATS is explaining the characteristics of the mediation, in comparison with the arbitration and the judicial proceedings.
What are the advantages for the enterprises? When a mediation can take place? Why? Where are the mediators? Is it possible to trigger a mediation during a judicial proceedings?
A lot of questions to be answered.