Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)

Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)

Finley T. Harckham, Peter A. Halprin | Anderson Kill

The outcome of an arbitration can be determined by choice-of-law provisions and other clauses that dictate who may serve as an arbitrator and how the proceedings must be conducted. This is particularly true in the context of insurance coverage litigation, which often turns upon which state’...

Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)

Hervé Gouraige | Sills Cummis & Gross P.C.

Introduction In 1976, Abram Chayes, Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard, described a transformation of civil adjudication from the previous traditional model of plaintiff v. defendant to “a new model of civil litigation” called “public law litigation.”[1]...

Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)

Olivier André | International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (CPR Institute)

Editor: Can you tell us about CPR and its role in the field of dispute resolution over the past decades? André: The International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (CPR) was created 35 years ago by general counsel at Fortune 100 companies to find alternatives to the high...