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ADR and Other Options: Advising Your Clients

By Frances Z. Calafiore
October 07, 2003

It never fails to amaze me. Educated professionals, usually of the legal variety, begin discussing the state of our civil justice system. A discussion of the adversarial system ensues. Debating what is wrong with it, or perhaps, (thanks to those 'half-full glass' types) ways in which it could be improved, is usually an animated segment of the discussion. Invariably, when I am in the room ' and I would guess most other times too ' the discussion turns to 'What else is there, what's better?'

The question of just what other options are available becomes most pertinent. Alternative dispute resolution (ADR) is mentioned, and generally there is at least a flicker of recognition, not always flattering, but often we do not have a clear idea or very much knowledge about what is available and how it works.

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