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Question I am a Labor and Industrial relation student at Penn state University and I am taking an arbitration class. I have to prepare an opening statement for a mock arbitration. It needs to be from the management side of an arbitration. Is there a website I can access to see some examples?
Answer Thanks for your question.
Not that I know of. Unlike litigation, arbitration is very industry and location specific in how it is conducted and how it is administered. From real estate disputes in California to union labor problems in Ohio to contractor disputes in Texas, each venue has developed a unique and very difference convention and process. Your best bet would be looking at the American Arbitration Association site, that may have some standard material (but I doubt it). Hence, there is unlikely to be an "example" of an opening statement.
Typically, an opening statement in an arbitration or mediation is only a presentation of the dispute from one perspective. It lays out the chronology and facts of the dispute in a straightforward way, as completely as possible.
This is not a place to argue law or consider evidence, but merely a simple presentation of the problem.
