Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)

Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)

Noah J. Hanft | International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (CPR Institute)

Editor: Tell us how your experiences at MasterCard attracted you to ADR and led you to take the helm at CPR. Hanft: I came to MasterCard in the 1980s with a largely litigation background and more importantly a litigation mindset, meaning that I subscribed to the rather traditional view that...

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]...