Mediation is a tool that parties to a legal dispute can use to reach a compromise settlement instead of going forward with the risk and expense of litigation in a public court. Typically, the parties jointly retain an experienced, neutral Mediator to facilitate a compromise resolution after the Mediator confers with both parties and their...
Litigation, Alternative Dispute Resolution or Comprehensive Adjudication?
Individuals and companies facing difficult legal disputes have had only unattractive alternatives to choose from in the past. But now a much better option is available. It is called Comprehensive Adjudication. Until recently, ongoing legal disputes could only be resolved via public court litigation or two forms of alternative dispute resolution – arbitration or mediation. ...
How To Effectively Resolve Complex Legal Disputes
There is good news for those who are disheartened by the deplorable lack of attractive options available to parties involved in a difficult legal dispute. An alternative dispute resolution (ADR) process known as Comprehensive Adjudication is gaining increasing attention in the United States after years of proven success in other developed countries. The measurable advantages...
Mediated Settlements Are Better with Comprehensive Adjudication
The vast majority of civil legal disputes settle before trial and professional mediators are commonly employed to facilitate the settlement process. Every successful settlement requires both parties to make significant compromises, including the party that legally deserves to win. That outcome ends the dispute and allows the parties to move on, but does it promote...
Why Is Comprehensive Adjudication Better Than Arbitration?
Many years ago, it was popular to look to Arbitration as a solution for many of the problems with civil litigation in our public courts. But over time attention was drawn to some inherent flaws in the Arbitration system and those flaws have been the subject of increasingly severe criticism. See en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbitration. Fortunately, Comprehensive Adjudication...
The Most Strategic Response to a Request for Comprehensive Adjudication
There is now increasing attention devoted to an emerging form of alternative dispute resolution called Comprehensive Adjudication. It provides the parties to a legal dispute with a more expertly decided, enforceable decision in less than half the time, and at less than half the cost, of conventional litigation. And the total cost can be capped...