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Why Lawyers Should Like Neutral-Driven Dispute Resolution
NDR – Neutral-Driven Dispute Resolution – is a less costly and less adversarial way to settle limited-stakes business disputes. It’s driven by neutral judges, peers, or experts, agreed upon in advance by both parties. It’s faster, more affordable, and more collaborative for everyone involved. So, as a lawyer, you may ask, “What’s in it for…
Read MoreThe ‘Just Right’ Way to Recover Bad Business Debts Without Going Broke
If you run a small or medium size business, one of these days you’re going to have a dispute – with a client, a vendor, customer, or supplier. It will happen. Maybe someone refuses to pay you for the work you did or services you provided. Or they paid you with a check that bounced.…
Read MoreDisagreements Happen: Resolution can be non-adversarial
Business disputes are expected to grow in 2021-2022, but litigation and conventional arbitration can be poor options. The movement toward non-adversarial dispute resolution is gaining momentum. A 2021 survey of business owners and managers reported a higher frequency of disputes throughout 2020 primarily due to the Covid-19 pandemic and its unexpected disruption of normal business…
Read MoreJust Resolve’s NDR Process v. Lawyers and Litigation
The value of Just Resolve’s Neutral Driven Dispute Resolution (NDR) service is best illustrated by comparing the time and money required for the NDR process to lawyer-driven litigation. For limited stakes situations, the advantages of using NDR from Just Resolve stand out. Just Resolve’s Goal is Resolution Just Resolve focuses all parties’ attention on resolving…
Read MoreImportant Clauses in a Contract
In a world of rapid change, running a business is harder than ever before. While the pandemic slowed some activities, many business owners have seen acceleration in business disagreements. Business misunderstandings that grow into disputes and legal conflicts are very real things which can negatively impact your business. Whether it is the high lawyer costs…
Read MoreDefusing 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 MoreWhy Litigate: When would you WANT to choose litigation?
Why would you want to litigate? Previously, I wrote an article on reasons why you should avoid litigation. Now, I’ll take a look at the other side of the coin and discuss when litigation might be the more appropriate solution. People and companies end up in litigation for many reasons. Usually, someone – or, more…
Read MoreWhat Makes a Neutral a “Good” Neutral?
The number one consideration for choosing a dispute resolution service is making sure your neutral is good, whether they are a mediator, arbitrator, or arbiter; but what makes a neutral good? What does “good” really mean in this context? After interviewing business owners in depth to figure out what matters to them the most about…
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