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May 2004 VOLUME 2 ISSUE 1  

Arbitration & Dispute Resolution Update

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ICC Awards in Print: 2003 Update
The Power of Arbitrators to Issue Subpoenas to Non-Parties
ICC Rules as Appointing Authority Broadened
ICC Statistics from 2003 and 2002
Complex Arbitrations
Parallel Proceedings and the Notion of Lis Pendens
Proposed Reforms to the Federal Arbitration Act
Young Arbitrators Forum Launched
Member and Staff News
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We are pleased to welcome the following new members of USCIB: Greenberg Traurig LLP, a Miami-based law firm offering commercial legal services; Darby & Darby, P.C., a full-service intellectual property law firm with offices in New York and Seattle; Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati, a premier legal advisor covering a broad spectrum of corporate and litigation services, headquartered in Palo Alto, California; Marger Johnson & McCollom, PC, a full-service patent, trademark and copyright firm serving technology clients, based in Portland, Oregon; and Collier Shannon Scott, PLLC, a firm that provides a broad range of legal services to the corporate, industrial, financial, and trade association communities, headquartered in Washington, D.C.
 
It is our pleasure to announce the arrival of Nancy M. Thevenin as the new Deputy Director of Arbitration and ADR in North America for the ICC International Court of Arbitration.  Nancy joins us from the law firm of Astigarraga Davis Mullins & Grossman, P.A. in Miami, where she practiced international commercial litigation and international commercial arbitration.  Originally from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Nancy grew up in New York and obtained her undergraduate degree from Cornell University.  While at Cornell, she studied for a year in Spain and upon graduating, attended Tulane Law School.  While in law school, Nancy spent a semester at Paris II, Pantheon-Assas, and graduated with a concentration in European Legal Practice.  Nancy is fluent in French, Spanish, Haitian Creole, and proficient in Swahili.
 
Sadly, Kirsten J. Harlow will be leaving us to pursue her Masters Degree in International Relations and International Economics from Johns Hopkins Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).  She will spend her first year at the school’s Bologna, Italy campus before heading to Washington, D.C. to finish her degree.  She leaves us in the end of May to travel for several months throughout Southeast Asia before heading to Bologna in August.


ICC Court sets its sights on Latin America
  May 2004
The ICC International Court of Arbitration has strengthened its presence in Latin America by creating a new position of regional director, to which it has appointed former Secretariat member Dyalá Jiménez Figueres.

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