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Letters

Oct. 10, 2012

Why would parties appeal an agreement they mutually assent to?

The court's lack of understanding of ADR (alternative dispute resolution), currently known as CDR (consensual dispute resolution) is frightening. By Mark Baer

The courts' lack of understanding of ADR (alternative dispute resolution), currently known as CDR (consensual dispute resolution) is frightening. I was just reading an article by Michael L. Stern, a judge in the Los Angeles County Superior Court, titled "Saving the soul of public justice," published Oct. 3. Judge Stern states, "the burgeoning ADR business is not an adequate substitute for a public judicial forum ... it is well-recognized that private for-profit adjudication is expensive; i...

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