Thirty Steps to a Better Arbitration - Chapter 3 - AAA Handbook on Arbitration Practice

Michael J. Bayard is a full-time construction arbitrator, mediator and project neutral. He chairs the AAA’s Construction Advisory Subcommittee for the Los Angeles Region and teaches a graduate course in construction management at the University of Southern California, where he is an adjunct professor. He was recently named to the AAA’s National Construction Master Arbitrator Roster.

Judith B. Ittig practices law in Washington, D.C. She is also an arbitrator and mediator, serving on the AAA’s panels for construction, commercial and international cases, as well as the large complex case panel. She is listed on the AAA’s National Construction Master Arbitrator Roster. Mrs. Ittig has been on the AAA’s arbitrator training faculty since 1996, and she helped develop the 2-day advanced arbitrator training course. She is a Fellow of the American College of Construction Lawyers and the College of Commercial Arbitrators.

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Our skills as arbitrators improve with every arbitration we hear. Each case brings unique situations, unusual requests for relief, scheduling problems, different approaches to the presentation of evidence, and new award-writing challenges. We learn from the process, from the parties in each case, and from our fellow arbitrators. What follows are our top thirty tips, which you cannot find in any arbitration rules, since they are gleaned from actual cases we have heard and those our colleagues have told us about. We thought other arbitrators might find them worth adopting, or adapting, in future arbitrations.