Dispute Resolution
Essays

Many theorists, including Nadja Alexander and Marian Roberts, begin their discussions of mediation by noting that it is a fairly new phenomenon in the field of formal dispute resolution.

You are a party (plaintiff or defendant) in a civil lawsuit. You and your attorney are deciding whether you should request that the trial be conducted with a jury. Identify and explain three factors to consider in this…

Through almost all of its history, the U.S. legal system has been an adversarial system, characterized by two parties entering into a legal dispute, with only one party emerging as the winner.

ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION: LEGAL and PSYCHOLOGICAL

This paper addresses both administrative and judicial processes for contract dispute resolution. Administrative processes like mediation focus on keeping the parties to a contract out of court. Judicial processes require a court of law, and can take longer and cost much more than administrative options. Many contracts today are written so that administrative options are the first or only choice.

For some people, juvenile courts are a better alternative to other kinds of litigation. For others people however, these kinds of courts are not severe enough for the crimes that are committed, and the juveniles do not…

Alternative dispute resolution can provide important advantages over taking legal action, but only under specific conditions. While the advantages of dispute resolution are often touted, a careful look reveals that…

The document is a personal statement in pursuit of admission to a Master of Dispute Resolution program offered at the Pepperdine University School of Law. The narrative includes references to the candidate's work in the corporate world, her attempt to succeed at culinary school, and the faith that has seen her through these experiences.

Alternative dispute resolution is a process where disputes are resolved out of court. This paper analyses ADR in terms of divorce cases in New York. In the paper ADR is analyzed in terms of its effect in supplementing the judicial process. The effects that ADR has on caseflow management are also discussed in the paper. Finally, the short-term and long-term benefits of ADR are discussed indicating how effective and time saving ADR is on the parties and the courts.

The author of this report has been asked to prepare a brief report about a real-world example of a situation that could have gone to litigation but was instead handled via alternative dispute resolution, or ADR for short.