Posts by Robert Christopher
Defusing Disputes with Neutral-Driven Process Keeps You Out of Court
Life moves quickly and businesses need to work hard to keep pace. Along the way, it is not uncommon for stressful legal issues to arise. Whether conflicts come up internally or between businesses partners, clients or vendors, legal action is a far too common scenario. Unfortunately, it has become a trend to simply take any…
Read MoreComparing Cures for Covid Related Lawsuits
It’s Covid Time. None of us saw this coming. Vacations, weddings, rent payments, jobs, and so much more, all thrown into chaos, and with that chaos comes uncertainty and disagreements. I’ve made or received a deposit for an event, is a refund owed? What rent is owed when a leased office can’t be used? A…
Read MoreLitigation Nightmares
I’ve been working on my upcoming book about our neutral-driven dispute resolution. It begins with a litigation nightmare from my own law practice about a start-up drug company who disputed a bill from a testing lab after the study results weren’t favorable. Read the excerpt to see what happened. The start-up drug company’s CEO was…
Read MoreJust What is NDR?
As you know, what we do at Just Resolve is promote and facilitate neutral-driven, non-adversarial ADR (“Alternative Dispute Resolution”) in legal disputes where legal and other related costs of litigation (and its popular alternatives) would otherwise consume the financial stakes over which the parties are fighting. Neutral-driven ADR is exactly what its name implies, and…
Read MoreWhat Mt. Kilimanjaro Taught Me About Business
Picture this: ten friends slogging their way up Mt. Kilimanjaro – each one carefully copying the foot placements of the person in front of him. Now add in extreme weather, sleep deprivation and the lurking possibility of injury. About a month ago, that was my reality. The air was thin, but the penchant for adventure…
Read MoreProportionality in Dispute Resolution: Breathing Through Your Legal Downward Dog
Some of us were not meant to be yogis. Downward Dog is more accurately Face-plant Dog for some people. Balance, right? Who knew it could be so difficult? Lately though, there’s been a great deal of chatter about finding balance. In fact, achieving balance appears to have surpassed many previously elevated goals such as making…
Read MoreWhat’s in it for Them?
SO YOU GET IT. You know what’s in it for you. You want neutral-driven dispute resolution in your business contracts. But to make this happen, the other side also has to agree. Since it’s less well known, and not yet standard in industry contract templates, you’ll probably need to propose Just Resolve for any disputes…
Read MoreWhen Do Lawyers have a Duty to Step Aside?
Recently, Anon Moose, LLC. and NOYB, Inc.* had a $23,000 contract dispute that early negotiations failed to settle. In an effort to bring about an amicable solution for both parties, Anon’s attorney suggested involving a mutually agreeable neutral, for a set fee, to initially mediate the dispute and, if necessary, resolve the conflict via binding…
Read MoreHow to Keep Your Client When Litigation Isn’t the Answer
Every litigation attorney encounters the circumstance at one time or another: a long-standing client approaches you with a stubborn, both-sides-believe-they’re-right matter for which the many costs of litigation, and probably even getting to mediation, will be unreasonable compared to the limited money at stake. How can you deliver real and economic justice to the client?…
Read MoreContract Disagreements, Failures, and Misunderstandings…What Are Your Resolution Options?
You suffer the irate voicemail, the missing payment, faulty product, unmet deadline, or an escalated service issue. One thing is always true: it involves a financial and reputational risk to your business and an interruption of operations. The failure, perceived or real, of one or both parties to meet the terms of an agreement have…
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