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Miles Mediation & Arbitration

Strategic Mediation in High-Stakes Cases: Trust, Transparency, and Early Evaluation

In high-dollar litigation, mediation is not merely a procedural requirement or a perfunctory step toward resolution. Rather, it can be a pivotal moment in the life cycle of a case. When leveraged correctly, mediation offers...more

Miles Mediation & Arbitration

Ensuring Efficiency and Economy: An Arbitrator's Primary Obligation

What is an arbitrator’s primary obligation? If you put that question to most arbitrators or representatives of arbitral institutions, you will get the same answer: to render an enforceable award. That consensus is so...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Minnesota Court Denies Substitution Motion: Implications for Litigation Funders

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A new decision may cut back on attempts by third-party litigation lenders to control settlements. Earlier this month, the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota refused to permit the substitution of a legal...more

NAM (National Arbitration and Mediation)

Thoughts on ADR in the face of the Covid-19 Pandemic – A Neutral’s Perspective

As we are all challenged by the current pandemic, it strikes me that alternative dispute resolution (ADR) is perhaps no longer an alternative to traversing the court system, but rather the only viable method for the...more

JAMS

Mediation plus: Don’t leave money on the table - Two approaches to modifying mediation in difficult-to-settle cases

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Mediation is the most widely used ADR approach today and has been for the past generation. In the course of becoming widespread it has also become predictable. It has become predictable that last month one party told me a...more

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