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What's New :

Summer 2011  

It was a busy and productive summer.  Daniel Yamshon published Do Party Arbitrators Have Ethical Duties of Neutrality?  “Dispute Resolution Magazine, Vol. 17 No. 4, Summer, 2011 p. 28. (American Bar Association Dispute Resolution Section Section, pub.), his thirty-first published article relating to law and ADR.

The annual Summer Institute in Conflict Resolution went well.  As lead trainer for the Center for African Peace and Conflict resolution, Daniel Yamshon has presented this seminar in negotiation and mediation since 1996.  Drawing people from all over the world and constantly updated, this year was the best yet!

In July, Daniel traveled to Ghana for the Third International Conference on African Peace and Conflict Resolution. The conference  was sponsored by The Ghana Association of Chartered Mediators and Arbitrators and The Center for African Peace and Conflict Resolution.
 While in Ghana,

• He presented a training for experienced mediators on complex multi-party mediation in a petroleum development context.
• Presented a paper at the conference: “ A Comparison of the Ghana Alternative Dispute Resolution Act and the Uganda Arbitration and Conciliation Act,”
• Received an Appreciation Award from Ghana Association of Certified Mediators and Arbitrators (GHACMA) “In appreciation of his immense support to GHACMA and the institution of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) in Ghana,”  presented by Her Ladyship Georgina Theodora Wood, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana.

Spring 2011  

Daniel Yamshon was a panelist at the 20th Annual International Conference of the Center for African Peace and Conflict Resolution, discussing the Ghana ADR Act of 2010.

Winter-Spring 2011  

Daniel Yamshon presented the seminar, "Maximizing Your Effectiveness Through ADR" at the annual legal retreat of the Placer County Bar Association at Granlibakken, Lake Tahoe.

Winter 2010  

Daniel Yamshon was honored when presented with the President's Award from the Sacramento County Bar Association for dedication and service in improving the legal profession and the practice of law in Sacramento County.

Fall, 2010

Daniel Yamshon presented a seminar at the California State Bar Association 83rd annual meeting entitled, "Conducting an Efficient and Effective Arbitration" (September 2010)

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Published "Telephone Mediation" in "New York Dispute Resolution Lawyer, Vol. 3 no. 2, fall 2010 p. 40 Published by the Dispute Resolution Section of the New York State Bar Association.

Summer, 2010

Daniel's Article, "How to draft an Arbitration Clause," a self-study continuing education course was published in the June 2010 issue of "Sacramento Lawyer." You can obtain one hour of substantive law credit if you take the exam at the end of the article. Visit WWW.SacBar.org.

Spring, 2010

Daniel Yamshon, with Ken Malovos, presented "You've Avoided the Old Traps, Now Watch for the Pitfalls," an ADR case law update for the Sacramento County Bar Association ADR Section.

Winter-Spring, 2009

Daniel Yamshon was honored by being presented with the Honorable Harold Kalina Civil Justice Award at the annual winter meeting of the National Arbitration Forum in San Antonio, Texas in January. The award honors contribution to improving and broadening the delivery of justice and reflecting the highest standards of the legal profession.

National Arbitration Forum officials present Daniel Yamshon with the Honorable Harold Kalina Civil Justice Award.  ( Left to right: Erin Hinderks, Ryan Chandlee, David Schaibley, Daniel Yamshon, Colleen Askvig and Jodi Beste.)

Daniel was named International Subcommittee chair of the California State Bar Association Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee.

The Sacramento County Bar Association named Daniel Yamshon section liaison to the association's board of directors.

2008:

2008 was an exciting year. Daniel Yamshon was lead trainer at ADR training programs in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in January and July. After completing training, mediators resolved family conflicts at the offices of the Ethiopian Women Lawyers Association and conducted productive mediations at the Federal Court in Addis Ababa. While in Ethiopia Mr. Yamshon also had the opportunity to observe traditional conflict resolution, which, while a somewhat more contemplative process than Western Mediation, has much in common with mediation as practiced in the United States.

Daniel was also honored by being appointed to the California State Bar Association ADR Committee, which advises the State Bar Board of Governors on ADR issues effecting California Lawyers and was appointed to the American Bar Association Advisory Committee. He continues on as chair of the Sacramento County Bar Mandatory Continuing Education Committee.

Daniel Yamshon overlooks the Blue Nile River Valley between Addis Ababa and Gonder, Ethiopia.

Fall 2007
 
Presented “Lessons From the Third World:  What Civil Wars and Ethnic Conflicts Have in Common with Your Mediation (It’s simler than you think)” Sacramento County Bar Assn ADR Section, October 2007

Daniel Yamshon presents “Lessons From the Third World…” to the ADR section of the bar. 

Summer 2007:

The Center for African Peace and Conflict Resolution, having been awarded a contract with the U.S. Department of State, sent Executive Director Dr. Ernest Uwazie and Lead Trainer Daniel Yamshon to Ethiopia to perform an ADR needs assessment during the month of August.

Daniel Yamshon, Mr. Assefa Keseto, Minister of Justice and Prof. Ernest Uwazie in the minister’s chambers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Spring 2007:

Daniel Yamshon, collaborating with professors Uwazie and Cannon, presented their findings to the seventeenth annual Africa Peace Conference.

Winter 2007:

At the request of the World Bank, Mr. Yamshon, together with professors Ernest Uwazie, PhD. And Patrick Cannon, PhD. completed a study of selected African Conflicts and reported on  implications and lessons learned for mediation discovered from that study. 
Fall-Winter 2006-2007

Daniel Yamshon served as a judge at the American Bar Association Law Student Division National Arbitration Competition at the University of Texas Law School in Austin. The students presented mock cases to tribunals of professional arbitrators. The quality of the work and presentations was impressive; the students performed as well as some of the best lawyers.

Spring-Summer 2006:
Daniel Yamshon together with his wife Ellen Yamshon, published their second collaboration for the Harvard Negotiation Law Review. We do not know if this is the first time a husband and wife team has published two articles in the Harvard Negotiation Law Review, but it appears to be the first time comics have appeared in a law review article.
Be our guest and see: “Comics Media in Conflict Resolution Programs: Are they Effective in Promoting and Sustaining Peace?” Harvard Negotiation Law Review Vol 11, Spring 2006 (June).

Fall-Winter 2005:
At the request of Chief Justice Stephen Brobbey, Daniel Yamshon was hired as a consultant to create an ADR agency for The Gambia in West Africa. As in many other countries, the court system in The Gambia was fraught with delay, exacerbated by over crowded dockets and a shortage of judges. The General Assembly, the Gambian legislature enacted statutes enabling the creation of an ADR Secretariat to administer a court-connected system encompassing arbitration, conciliation and mediation. Mr. Yamshon’s job was to create the administrative regulations, operations manuals and ADR Rules for the Secretariat. Daniel Yamshon had trained a cadre of Gambian lawyers and judges in the United States in the summer of 2005. After creating the manuals, regulations and rules, for the ADR Secretariat, Daniel mentored the people he trained in the US in a training they presented to other lawyers, judges, religious and community leaders, ably assisted by Ne Ne Amagacher, former president of the Ghana Bar Association and Justice Georgina Wood, Associate Justice of the Ghana Supreme Court.