JAMS co-produced workshop on International Arbitration & Mediation, Mar. 27, in Los Angeles, CA, you will gain tips and strategies for the resolution of complex international disputes, with special consideration to matters based in Asia. Join program co-chairs Cedric C. Chao, Esq. of Morrison & Foerster LLP, Jay Welsh, Esq. of JAMS, and a faculty of leading practitioners, including senior corporate counsel from such major multinationals as Bechtel and Nike, to discuss what corporate counsel, litigators and professionals involved in transnational ADR need to know. Sign up soon. You can register here What: International Arbitration & Mediation When: March 27, 2007 Where: Los Angeles, CA (Omni Los Angeles Hotel) Details: International Arbitration & Mediation Workshop or call us at (800) 854-8009

Frances Mayes visit to Suffolk on February 1 The College of Arts & Sciences and the Center for International Education are pleased to welcome best-selling author Frances Mayes to Suffolk University on February 1. Mayes will speak at 4 PM in the Walter H. McLaughlin Moot Courtroom, 4th floor, Sargent Hall. A reception and booksigning will immediately follow in the faculty dining room, also on the 4th floor at Sargent Hall. Frances Mayes has always adored houses, and when she saw Bramasole, a neglected, 200-year old Tuscan farmhouse nestled in five overgrown acres, it was love at first sight. Out of that instant infatuation has come four marvelous, and hugely popular, books: the bestsellers Under the Tuscan Sun; Bella Tuscany; In Tuscany, a collaborative photo-textbook with her husband, the poet Edward Mayes and photographer Bob Krist; and, most recently, Bringing Tuscany Home: Sensuous Style from the Heart of Italy, another collaborative book with Edward Mayes and photographer Steven Rothfeld. All four highly personal books are about taking chances, living in Italy, loving and renovating an old Italian villa, the pleasures of food, wine, gardens, and the “voluptuousness of Italian life.” Her first novel, Swan, a family saga and mystery, returns Mayes to her childhood home of Georgia and was published in 2002. A film version of Under the Tuscan Sun, starring Diane Lane, was released in fall of 2003. Frances Mayes was the editor for the 2002 Best American Travel Writing. She is also the author of the travel memoir entitled A Year in the World: Journeys of A Passionate Traveller, which immediately debuted as a New York Times bestseller. A widely published poet and essayist, Frances Mayes has written numerous books of poetry, including Sunday in Another Country, After Such Pleasures, The Arts of Fire, Hours, The Book of Summer, and Ex Voto. Her work The Discovery of Poetry: A Field Guide to Reading and Writing Poems is widely used in college poetry classes. Formerly a professor of creative writing at San Francisco State University, where she directed The Poetry Center and chaired the Department of Creative Writing, Mayes now devotes herself full time to writing and to her “At Home in Tuscany” furniture and accessory lines. She and her husband divide their time between North Carolina and Cortona, Italy. This event is free and open to the public. If you plan to attend, RSVP to R. Scott Reedy at rreedy@suffolk.edu or 617-994-4221.

Congratulations to the POTSADR Running Team for their impressive team victory at the Thomspon Island 4k XC Race! The team of Joshua Gordon, Chris George, Shaun O’Brien, Joe Bator, and Chris DeGrace defeated runner-up Pioneer Investments for the third straight year.