Alternative Dispute Resolution
Highly knowledgeable of all forms of alternative dispute resolution (ADR), our ADR practice is skilled in employing creative and highly effective conflict management and resolution strategies to our clients’ advantage. By leveraging the benefits ADR can offer over the traditional litigation process — efficiency, flexibility and confidentiality — our team helps preserve and enhance business relationships.
Recognized Leader in ADR
Our ADR lawyers — regionally and nationally recognized — have served with distinction as neutrals, both independently and under the auspices of ADR provider organizations such as the American Arbitration Association, the International Centre for Dispute Resolution and the International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution (CPR). We have built a reputation for fairness and creative problem-solving and are highly regarded for our fluency in complex commercial transactions and cutting-edge technologies. Well-established in the ADR field, our firm was the recipient of CPR’s inaugural Law Firm Award for Excellence in Alternative Dispute Resolution.
Our Comprehensive Services
Lawyers in our ADR practice are well-versed in all forms of ADR and skilled at using dispute resolution strategically to our clients’ advantage. We serve as client advocates, where we handle negotiations, mediations and arbitrations and provide clients with ADR advice; our services also include early case assessments and guidance regarding how best to resolve disputes. In addition, we negotiate, draft and enforce ADR clauses, design conflict management systems for businesses, and provide educational seminars and instruction regarding the use of ADR.
When representing clients, our ADR strategies and practices enable our clients to achieve results that further their business goals, reduce expense and delay in resolving disputes, and avoid the distractions to management that prevent them from focusing on their businesses. Our cross-disciplinary ADR practice includes lawyers highly knowledgeable in litigation, banking and financial services, corporate, intellectual property, insurance and employment law.
Trusted Neutrals for Mediation and Arbitration
Recognized for their skill as mediators and arbitrators, several of our ADR practitioners routinely serve as neutrals at the request of lawyers nationwide. Our lawyers also serve by appointment through organizations that act as clearinghouses for ADR services and are known for high standards and thorough vetting of practitioners. Stradley Ronon neutrals have a well-earned reputation for creatively mediating solutions and for fairly and promptly rendering arbitral awards.
Institutionalizing ADR
We help companies institutionalize ADR by securing management buy-in, training employees, implementing ADR policies and establishing best practices. Our team customizes and provides educational seminars and instruction regarding the use of ADR.
Conflict Management Systems
To manage and avoid disputes, we design ADR systems with early screening tools, outside counsel retention policies, and structured procedures for employment disputes.
Contract Provisions
Our team drafts and enforces ADR provisions in contracts, addressing key issues such as confidentiality, selection of neutrals, and choice of law to ensure enforceability.
International ADR
We develop cross-border ADR clauses; navigate enforceability challenges; and consider legal, cultural and linguistic factors to support global dispute resolution.
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