Disclosure

Interested parties should not rely on this website as a complete or updated source of disclosure information about Ms. Ram. Ms. Ram is a member of several organizations (“Organizations”) and also attends numerous conferences and events (“Events”) related to mediation, arbitration, litigation, corporate governance, business transactions, law, intellectual property, commercial and investment issues, finance, labor and employment, and other matters. Additionally, she teaches and lectures worldwide and participates on social networks such as LinkedIn.

Ms. Ram does not maintain records of fellow members, speakers, or participants, nor does she monitor contact lists on LinkedIn and similar sites. Tangential connections in such contexts should not be considered relationships that might affect impartiality or independence in the eyes of a reasonable third party. Ms. Ram abides by statutory, American Bar Association, American Arbitration Association, and other applicable rules and canons regarding the disclosure of interests or relationships likely to affect impartiality or which might create an appearance of partiality (Canon II, Code of Ethics for Arbitrators in Commercial Disputes, American Bar Association [2004]; General Standard 2, International Bar Association Guidelines for Conflicts of Interest in Commercial Arbitration [2024]). Additionally, she does not maintain complete records of students who attend her sessions, classes, or lectures, nor of LinkedIn “contacts,” as all of these are not, alone, a “known relationship which might reasonably affect impartiality or independence in the eyes of any of the parties.”

Ms. Ram requests that any party in an arbitration for which she is proposed as an arbitrator or neutral promptly disclose any facts or circumstances leading that party to question her impartiality or independence as soon as that information is reasonably available to the party. For that purpose, the party should undertake a reasonable, continuing search of publicly available information promptly after learning of her prospective appointment as arbitrator. Ms. Ram makes a statement substantially similar to this disclosure in the disclosure statements for arbitrations for which she is nominated as an arbitrator. Regarding LinkedIn specifically, Ms. Ram generally accepts requests from other professionals or executives to be added to her LinkedIn profile but does not maintain a database of all such persons and their connections, which now number several hundred.

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