Events
Join us and your peers after AI in ADR: Fundamentals to discuss what you have learned and offer a new perspective. Have the experts omitted anything; do you agree with their take on AI fundamentals? You don’t have to join the webinar to discuss benefits and risks of relying on AI in ADR.
Moderators: Kateryna Honcharenko MCIArb; Stephen Dowling; Monica Crespo; Johnny Shearman; Claire Morel de Westgaver and John McElroy.
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AI and ADR: Theory and Practice
New technology has become an integral part of the legal profession over recent years. However, when it comes to artificial intelligence (AI), it has also become a stumbling block. AI tools are capable of significantly increasing our professional efficiency, but unconditional reliance on AI may also adversely affect the procedural efficiency of all forms of private dispute resolution. This includes due process, confidentiality, enforceability and other principal procedural matters. The question many dispute resolution practitioners are asking is: To what extent can AI be used in our work?
AI and ADR: Theory and Practice is a series of webinars and Let’s Discuss networking events hosted by Ciarb with its partners TrialView and Jus Mundi.
Together, we’ll explore the realm of AI, including AI tools and their application. We will discuss how AI can be utilised in an efficient and safe manner, and what parties, counsel and tribunals should consider before using AI tools.
Each webinar focuses on a particular theme, giving you the opportunity to learn from experts in the field. You can then discuss the theme further with expert moderators and peers at a subsequent Let’s Discuss networking event.
Event Speakers
Kateryna is Ciarb’s Arbitration Professional Practice Manager. Before joining Ciarb Kateryna trained with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and practiced litigation with Integrites in Kyiv, Ukraine. Kateryna holds an LL.M in comparative and international dispute resolution from Queen Mary University of London and an LL.M in international trade regulation from the Institute of International Relations, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, where she also obtained an LL.B in international private law. Kateryna is responsible for maintaining the research strategy that contributes towards Ciarb objectives concerning the use of alternative dispute resolution. She is, in particular, a co-author of the Ciarb Guidance Note on Remote Dispute Resolution Proceedings, Ciarb Framework Guideline on the Use of Technology in International Arbitration and acts as the lead UNCITRAL Working Group II (Dispute Settlement) delegate.
John McElroy is a commercial dispute resolution expert and Head of the Commercial Disputes Team in London. He has extensive experience dealing with complex and high value commercial litigation and international arbitration matters, with a particular emphasis on complex financial services and contractual disputes.
John has acted in all divisions of the English High Court and his cases regularly involve international elements. He has been involved in LCIA, ICC, LME, LMAA, LCAM and ad hoc arbitrations - involving parties in various different jurisdictions - and in various ICSID arbitrations. He has also acted in cases before the Courts of the British Virgin Islands.
John is currently acting on a variety of commercial disputes ranging from High Court employment disputes to breach of warranty claims, insolvency disputes and international arbitrations. He has also acted on intellectual property, trusts, property and tax disputes. Arising out of the COVID-19 pandemic, he was instructed on matters involving issues such as force majeure and frustration.
John has twice been the partner responsible for the cases recognised by The Lawyer’s Top 20 Litigation of the year surveys. Back in 2016, John was the lead lawyer representing the successful claimants on the first case to reach a judgment in the London High Court’s new Financial List. He has also acted in regulatory investigations involving both the Financial Conduct Authority and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Most recently, John has been instructed on disputes against entities such as Macquarie Bank and American Express.
John’s diverse client base include major domestic and international companies including clients in the sports, travel and retail industries, as well as insolvency practitioners and individuals seeking to pursue their commercial interests.
He also has extensive experience of acting for and against groups of claimants, ranging from defending clients on claims being brought by groups of individuals, to advising groups of bondholders and institutional shareholders against major international banks and corporates.
Working towards a diverse, equitable and inclusive work force is paramount to John who is an active member of the firm’s DEI committee and chairs the firm’s global LGBTQ+ Alliance Working Group.
Stephen is the founder and CEO of TrialView - an AI platform for arbitration and litigation. He is a Senior Counsel (trial lawyer) in Ireland, with over 22 years' experience in commercial and civil litigation. Stephen is the author of the Commercial Court (Round Hall 2nd Edition), with an MA in Commercial Law from Cambridge University.
Harry Borovick is General Counsel of Luminance which provides advanced AI for the processing of legal documents. As well as working at the forefront of the development of AI for legal operations, Harry is a lecturer at Queen Mary University London on applied legal AI and a visiting lecturer at the University of Law on contract law and commercial drafting. Harry currently sits as an AI advisor to CiArb and most recently contributed to the book Legal Operations in the Age of AI and Data.