Conferral letter before an arbitration discovery application

When to use it

Use when a party has not produced material the lawyer contends the clause, the institutional rules, or a procedural order requires. Check those sources before citing them. If the next step is a motion in federal court, also use the Rule 37 conferral points.

Used for these tasks

• Draft procedural correspondence and a proposed procedural order
• Build a Redfern schedule from the document requests
• Apply to the tribunal for interim measures

Each task page says how far AI may help with the task and what the lawyer must review.

How AI may be used

AI may draft the letter from the request, the response and the rule the lawyer has identified. The lawyer decides whether the tribunal or a court is the right place to go next.

Method: how the Green, Yellow and Red levels are decided. This is guidance for planning, not legal advice.

Authorities

• Fed. R. Civ. P. 37(a)(1) and 26(c)(1) (good-faith conferral certificates, if the application is made in federal court)
• 9 U.S.C. § 2 (the arbitration agreement is the starting point for what the parties adopted)
• Fed. R. Civ. P. 34(b)(2) (specificity of objections, as a useful standard if the parties have adopted federal discovery practice)

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• Federal Court Form 51: originating application for stay of a proceeding under the International Arbitration Act 1974
• Heads of agreement signed at the end of a mediation (binding terms of settlement)
• Stay of court proceedings under the International Arbitration Act, section 7
• Preservation notice when arbitration is anticipated
• Expert determination agreement (referral of an existing dispute to an expert)
• Federal Court Form 50: originating application for an order in terms of an arbitration award
• Request to refer court proceedings to arbitration under Model Law article 8
• Notice of arbitration (ACICA Rules, with UNCITRAL and ad hoc variants)
• Arbitration preliminary-hearing agenda
• Disclosure of confidential information in a Model Law arbitration
• Enforcing a foreign arbitral award in the Federal Court: application checklist (International Arbitration Act 1974 ss 8 and 9)
• Federal Court Form 52: originating application to enforce a foreign award under the International Arbitration Act 1974
• Mediation agreement (with confidentiality and recording/AI-notetaker clause)
• Correction, interpretation and set-aside times after a Model Law award
• Federal Court Form 58: originating application to enforce an award under section 35(4) of the International Arbitration Act 1974
• Multi-tiered dispute resolution clause (notice, negotiation, mediation, then expert determination or arbitration)
• Redfern schedule for document production requests (with guidance)
• Arbitration confidentiality and non-waiver stipulation
• Federal Court Form 53: originating application for relief under the Model Law, section 18 of the International Arbitration Act 1974
• Procedural order (or party agreement) on the use of AI in the arbitration
• Subpoena in aid of a Model Law arbitration
• Notice and consent for AI transcription or notetaking in mediations and other ADR sessions
• Federal Court Form 54: application for a subpoena under the International Arbitration Act 1974

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