Ms. Deborah Willig

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  fe.pennnet.com/News/Display_News_Story.cfm?Section=Wire - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 8/8/2002    Last Visited: 8/8/2002  

  Deborah Willig, attorney for Local 22 of the International Association of Fire Fighters, has asked the city to pick up the legal tab, the sources said.
  
  Willig cited as precedent the legal fees paid for dozens of city officials and employees involved in numerous lawsuits related to the 1985 MOVE incident.
  
  After members of the radical cult MOVE refused to leave their fortified headquarters on May 13, 1985, a police helicopter dropped a bomb on the roof, causing a massive fire.Six MOVE adults and five children died, 60 homes were destroyed and 250 residents were displaced.

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  www.kyw1060.com/pages/1278054.php? - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 12/4/2007    Last Visited: 12/11/2007  

  Deborah Willig (right), an attorney who has negotiated for the unions for many years, says one person "changed the landscape" of Philadelphia municipal contract talks:
  
  "His name was Edward G. Rendell."
  
  That was in 1991, when incoming Mayor Rendell got concessions from the unions that the workers have never forgotten.
  
  Willig says that since then, Philadelphia mayors have been anything but fair and reasonable:

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  Philadelphia Daily News | 08/08/2002 | City, medics... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 8/8/2002    Last Visited: 8/8/2002  

  Deborah Willig, attorney for Local 22 of the International Association of Fire Fighters, has asked the city to pick up the legal tab, the sources said.
  
  Willig cited as precedent the legal fees paid for dozens of city officials and employees involved in numerous lawsuits related to the 1985 MOVE incident.
  
  After members of the radical cult MOVE refused to leave their fortified headquarters on May 13, 1985, a police helicopter dropped a bomb on the roof, causing a massive fire.Six MOVE adults and five children died, 60 homes were destroyed and 250 residents were displaced.

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  Philadelphia Inquirer | 08/23/2006 | Teachers sue over... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 8/23/2006    Last Visited: 8/23/2006  

  Deborah Willig, an attorney representing the teachers' union, said the union would ask the court today or tomorrow for a temporary restraining order to prevent the district from implementing the change.

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  SDCT: Contract Ratified - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 9/13/2005    Last Visited: 9/21/2005  

  Attorney Deborah Willig represented the CEA.

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  The ADR Newsletter - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 2/16/2002    Last Visited: 2/1/2003  

  In a 1986 address before the National Academy of Arbitrators, Attorney Deborah Willig considered the arbitration experience in Title VII cases. (Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting, National Academy of Arbitrators, p. 101 et seq.) She noted that there were six potential criticisms of arbitration:
  
  1. Arbitrators wouldn't properly consider statutory rights;
  
  2. Arbitrators would most likely favor the party who could reappoint;
  
  3. Arbitration cases wouldn't be final;
  
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  Ms. Willig concluded:
  
  "Our examination of arbitral versus judicial resolution of employment discrimination cases has, in fact, changed my opinion about the propriety of the arbitration process in the resolution of discrimination cases.When we began the research for this speech, I thought that we would conclude that the courtroom was the better forum for resolving these claims, and I must admit that I agreed with this conclusion.The courts, I thought, are best equipped to entertain the legal arguments, hear and weigh the evidence, and vindicate the important civil rights created by statute.However, the literature and our own examination leads me to conclude otherwise.
  
  As I hope we have illustrated, most, if not all, of the criticisms leveled at arbitrators' competence in this area are without substance and are belied by the facts and statistics.
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  Ms. Willig in her article noted that 10 percent of the arbitrators were hearing 90 percent of the discrimination cases.This led her to the conclusion that only knowledgeable arbitrators were hearing discrimination cases.
  
  If it could be demonstrated to the parties that knowledgeable, independent arbitrators were available to consider civil rights cases, then arbitration could be a successful means of dispute resolution.Plaintiff and defense attorneys, however, have to be willing to consider arbitration as a means of resolving civil rights cases, whether arbitration occurs after a suit is filed or before.
  
  I suspect that there is a distrust of arbitration among many in the employment bar.This can only be overcome through successful experiences in arbitration, and through professional contact between arbitrators and attorneys.Arbitration in the union/management context has existed for over 60 years.

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