Webcast: Mediation, Litigation, and Arbitration: Timing, Cost, Leverage, and Outcomes
When a business resolution isn’t possible, the choice of forum shapes everything that follows. This recorded webcast compares mediation, litigation, and arbitration across the factors that matter most — timing, cost, confidentiality, discovery, motion practice, and appellate rights — and compares the strategic advantages and trade-offs each path presents.
PANELISTS:
Lindsey D. Schmidt is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and a member of Gibson Dunn’s Litigation, International Arbitration and Judgment and Arbitral Award Enforcement Practice Groups.
Mary Beth Maloney is a first-chair trial lawyer for public companies, their boards, and senior executives in their highest-stakes federal and state court litigation, securities matters, government enforcement actions, and complex commercial disputes, with a particular focus on healthcare, life sciences, and financial services. She is regularly retained as lead trial counsel when public companies face existential threats—from regulators and watchdog organizations, in securities class actions and SEC enforcement matters, and in bet-the-company commercial disputes.
As the founder of Delaware ADR, Judge Andrea Rocanelli (Ret.) draws on over three decades of legal and judicial experience to guide parties toward practical and durable mediated resolutions. Judge Rocanelli is a member of the National Association of Distinguished Neutrals; certified as a Commercial Law Arbitrator in Delaware; and trained in dispute resolution at Harvard Law School’s Negotiation Workshop and Pepperdine’s Straus Institute. Judge Rocanelli is also trained in de-escalation techniques by the National Alliance of Mental Illness (NAMI)’s Crisis Intervention Team (CIT).