The lawyers of the firm have advised and represented clients regarding Alternate Dispute Resolution. These alternatives to the normal means of settling disputes through litigation include not only the well-known technique of arbitration but other, usually nonbinding, procedures such as mediation, conciliation, minitrials, and private trials.
ADR can be useful in many different contexts and for a variety of reasons, to speed up the process or reduce the costs of dispute resolution, to increase client awareness of issues and risk, to preserve a client’s ongoing business relationships, to allow specially trained arbitrators to judge complex technical issues, to accommodate divergent foreign laws and cultures in international transactions, and to minimize public disclosure of a dispute.
