Law Office of David J. Abeshouse

Once again, I will be a facilitator in this excellent program: Advanced Commercial Mediation Training June 11-12, 2019 | 8:00 a.m. 5:00 p.m. Fordham University School of Law ... 140 West 62nd Street, New York, NY 10023 16.0 MCLE Credits | 4.0 in Areas of Professional Practice | 10.0 in Skills | 2.0 in Ethics $530 for Dispute Resolution Section members or Fordham Law alumni $580 for NYSBA members $680 for Non-NYSBA members Registration fee includes continental breakfast, lunch, coffee breaks, and program materials. Presented by Simeon H. Baum, Esq. and Stephen A. Hochman, Esq. An Overview of the Course: The NY State Bar Association proudly offers a special program designed for mediators who have completed or plan to complete a minimum of three days of basic mediation training and who desire to enhance their commercial mediation skills. This two-day course presents a thorough examination of mediation principles and techniques. The program faculty will analyze the structure of a typical mediation, highlight ethical issues that may arise in mediation, and explore solutions for generating movement and overcoming impasse. The instructors will focus on experiential learning through role plays and dialogue to help prepare you for the real world of commercial mediation. For further information, please contact Kristina Gagnon, at: [email protected] http://www.nysba.org/store/events/registration.aspx

It’s this Wednesday morning there’s still time to register: Complimentary Seminar -- Open to the Public Date: Wednesday, November 28, 2018 Title: Business Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Provides Fast, Fair, Flexible, Expert, Economical, Private, Customized Justice... Description: Business Arbitration and Business Mediation have a number of advantages relative to litigating commercial cases in court. There also are some disadvantages. Unless you’re intimately familiar with the Alternative Dispute Resolution processes, how will you know how best to represent your client? Our speaker is an experienced business dispute resolution lawyer, commercial arbitrator and mediator, trainer of new and experienced neutrals, ADR law consultant, author, and speaker who will review the realm of business-to-business Alternative Dispute Resolution, provide insights gleaned from decades of service as a lawyer and neutral, and answer your questions about B2B ADR topics. Speaker: David J. Abeshouse, Esq. Location: Hofstra University Club 225 Hofstra Boulevard Hempstead, NY 11550 (516) 463-5031 Time: 8:00am-8:30am Registration | 8:30am-10:20am Seminar R.S.V.P. [email protected] Must R.S.V.P. to attend! CLE Credits: 2.0 Areas of Professional Practice - this program is transitional and non-transitional Accreditation: National Academy of Continuing Legal Education Directions: Take Northern State Parkway to Meadowbrook Parkway South (Exit 31A) or Southern State Parkway to Meadowbrook Parkway North (Exit 22N). Proceed on Meadowbrook Parkway to Exit M4 West (Hempstead Turnpike). Follow Hempstead Turnpike (Route 24) west to Hofstra, approximately 1 12 miles. Turn right at light before 2nd Unispan, entering North Campus. David S. Mack Hall is on the right side. Signs will direct you to available parking. Seminar Sponsored By: Ultimate Abstract of New York Frenkel & Company On Balance Search Consultants Pedersen & Sons Surety Bond Agency

Complimentary Seminar -- Open to the Public Date: Wednesday, November 28, 2018 Title: Business Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Provides Fast, Fair, Flexible, Expert, Economical, Private, Customized Justice ... Description: Business Arbitration and Business Mediation have a number of advantages relative to litigating commercial cases in court. There also are some disadvantages. Unless you’re intimately familiar with the Alternative Dispute Resolution processes, how will you know how best to represent your client? Our speaker is an experienced business dispute resolution lawyer, commercial arbitrator and mediator, trainer of new and experienced neutrals, ADR law consultant, author, and speaker who will review the realm of business-to-business Alternative Dispute Resolution, provide insights gleaned from decades of service as a lawyer and neutral, and answer your questions about B2B ADR topics. Speaker: David J. Abeshouse, Esq. Location: Hofstra University Club 225 Hofstra Boulevard Hempstead, NY 11550 (516) 463-5031 Time: 8:00am-8:30am Registration | 8:30am-10:20am Seminar R.S.V.P. [email protected] Must R.S.V.P. to attend! CLE Credits: 2.0 Areas of Professional Practice - this program is transitional and non-transitional Accreditation: National Academy of Continuing Legal Education Directions: Take Northern State Parkway to Meadowbrook Parkway South (Exit 31A) or Southern State Parkway to Meadowbrook Parkway North (Exit 22N). Proceed on Meadowbrook Parkway to Exit M4 West (Hempstead Turnpike). Follow Hempstead Turnpike (Route 24) west to Hofstra, approximately 1 12 miles. Turn right at light before 2nd Unispan, entering North Campus. David S. Mack Hall is on the right side. Signs will direct you to available parking. Seminar Sponsored By: Ultimate Abstract of New York Frenkel & Company On Balance Search Consultants Pedersen & Sons Surety Bond Agency

I’m pleased to have been honored again, for the seventh year running, with the Super Lawyers designation for the category of Alternative Dispute Resolution Law in the New York Metro Area. According to parent company Thomson Reuters Corporation: Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. This selection process includes independent research, peer nominations and peer evaluations. Fewer than 5% of attorneys are selected to Super Lawyers.

David Abeshouse is pleased to announce: For the fourth time, I have authored a chapter in a book published by the American Bar Association. My chapter entitled, Morphing to Mediation: ADR as an Alternative has been accepted for publication in the forthcoming (2019) book, Second Acts for Solo and Small Firm Lawyers, under the auspices of the ABA’s Senior Lawyers Division. David Abeshouse serves as neutral Arbitrator on the Commercial Panels of Neutrals of the American Ar...bitration Assn., International Centre for Dispute Resolution, and other ADR forums. He also is a forum-based and private Mediator, and a trainer of new and experienced Mediators and Arbitrators. David acts as an ADR law consultant to other lawyers, and represents parties in commercial ADR matters. David is a charter member of The New York Academy of Mediators & Arbitrators (NYAMA; Executive Committee Member), Chapter of The National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals (NADN); he is a Fellow of the College of Commercial Arbitrators (CCA) and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation (ABF). David is a past Adjunct Law Professor, St. John's University School of Law, teaching ADR Law, and a past Chairperson of the Nassau County Bar Association ADR Law Committee. He has been selected to the NY Metro Area SuperLawyers list for ADR Law for multiple years. See more

As a contributing author, I just received my copy of this new book. My chapter is entitled, Morphing to Mediation: ADR as an Alternative. "Second Acts for Solo and Small Firm Lawyers" ABA Book Publishing, 256 pages ... This book will help all attorneys plan for their eventual life beyond the law, whether they are looking to supplement a pension, pay for the better things in life, or start an entirely new career. More lawyers than ever are at retirement age, and, at the same time, retirement takes on hues not envisioned by our fathers’ generations. Lawyers may leave the practice, but their skills, attitudes, and approaches bring different perspectives to lives beyond the law office. How do you know when it’s time to leave? What are the options for a lawyer who’s just hit his or her late 50s or early 60s and who wants out? What employment options exist for those who don’t have comfortable retirement plans but who really want, and possibly need, to get out of the practice? This book will help all attorneys plan for their eventual life beyond the law, whether they are looking to supplement a pension, pay for the better things in life, or start an entirely new career. The lawyers who contributed to this book come from a broad range of practice settings and styles in big cities and small towns. Covering all ages and statuses of law practice, each contributor has had hands-on, practical experience owning and operating a solo or small law firm, and each has shared their expertise generously in the development of this book. Don’t be left without a plan, use Second Acts for Solo and Small Firm Lawyers to start your own second act. https://www.americanbar.org/products/inv/book/357298374/

Announcing: The NY State Bar Association’s Dispute Resolution Section once again presents its Commercial Arbitration Training Program, at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (55 Fifth Ave., at 12th St.) on June 17, 18, and 19, 2019. I will be one of the trainers/presenters. This three-day program will focus on Best Practices in conducting commercial arbitrations. It is designed to introduce persons interested in becoming arbitrators as well as experienced arbitrators ...to contemporary Best Practices in arbitration, based upon recommendations by the College of Commercial Arbitrators, the American Arbitration Association, CPR, JAMS, and other arbitration thought-leaders. In addition to interactive sessions on managing an arbitration from the preliminary conference through the hearing and award, the program will include presentations on the law of arbitration, the ethical rules relating to service as an arbitrator, e-discovery, international arbitration, award writing, and the development of an arbitration practice. For more info and to register, please visit: http://www.nysba.org/store/events/registration.aspx I also can e-mail to you the program brochure, upon request. Please feel free to pass this along to anyone who might be interested. See more

Next Friday (May 3, 2019), I’ll be giving a short (yes, I am capable of that!) talk entitled: Business People (and Other Humans) Should Not Be Penny-Wise and Pound-Foolish With Contract Law at the monthly meeting of the Health & Business Alliance, Inc. (HBA, of which I was a founding Board member and past Vice-President/General Counsel). Small and medium-sized businesses place themselves and their owners in considerable peril when they forego having solid written busin...ess agreements. Even just the process of negotiating and entering into business agreements helps to decrease the likelihood of a disagreement going forward. Lack of a written agreement often means there hasn’t been a true meeting of the minds. There’s very good reason to get everyone on the same page, and to do it in the right way (rather than pulling some templates from the internet in an effort to DIY). We’ll discuss the whys and wherefores of doing things correctly. The meeting will take place at Amber Court Assisted Living in Westbury, starting at 8:15 a.m. Please join us for breakfast, and see what the HBA is all about. For more information, please visit: www.HBAmetro.org or e-mail me.

I am pleased to note the publication by the American Bar Association of the new book: Strategic Networking for Introverts, Extroverts, and Everyone in Between, by Carol Schiro Greenwald I am quoted extensively in the book. https://www.americanbar.org/products/inv/book/355453126/

I am pleased to have been invited back to help facilitate this program. Please consider attending, or pass this information along to someone else who might have interest. Advanced Commercial Mediation Training Friday, April 12 and Monday, April 15, 2019 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM both days ... The Dispute Resolution Section of the New York State Bar Association is proud to offer a special program designed for mediators who have completed or plan to complete a minimum of three days of basic mediation training and who desire to enhance their commercial mediation skills. This program will focus on identifying the barriers to settlement and the ways to overcome them. In addition to refining and deepening facilitative skills and orientation, the program will address ways of facilitating evaluative analyses or offering evaluative feedback to help the parties reach a resolution. This can include refining the handling of risk and transaction cost analysis, including the use of decision trees, as well as utilizing a variety of impasse breakers. The program will offer approaches to problems that arise when there are multiple parties or when one or more of the defendants has, or may have, insurance coverage with one or more insurance companies as well as ways to overcome impasse. Finally, the program will discuss the ethical issues that arise under various scenarios and how to deal with them. Venue: Nassau County Bar Association, at 15th & West Streets, Mineola, L.I. 16.0 MCLE Credits: 10.0 Skills, 2.0 Ethics, 4.0 Areas of Professional Practice NYSBA Member: $580 | Non-Member: $680 Dispute Section Member: $530 Nassau County Bar Association Member: $530 Learn More About This Advanced Commercial Mediation Training Program: http://www.nysba.org/AdvancedCommercialMediationTrainingBr/