Arbitration & Mediation

Help Me Alex, Help Help Me Alex -- Our Friend Judge Alexander Williams Settles the Beach Boys Litigation

By Victoria Pynchon

This case has been knocking around the Los Angeles Superior Court for some time. 

Though many mediators have tried to settle it, the case resisted resolution until it came into the full-time settlement court presided over by our friend and fellow Straus Institute-Adjunct Professor Judge Alexander Williams, III during California Mediation Week!

Good work Judge!  And if you've ever spent any time with Judge Williams, you too would be saying, as I am, "he has all the fun!"

Fun report below:  

While the lawyers were in chambers with Williams the first day, Jardine and Wilson sat in the audience and chatted, occasionally singing lines from "Help Me Rhonda" -- for which Jardine was the lead singer -- and "Tom Dooley," the Civil War-era folk song made famous in a version by The Kingston Trio.

Remainder of post here and video of Judge Williams describing his settlement and mediation process here.

Full post as published by Settle It Now Negotiation Blog on March 20, 2008 (boomark / email).