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Alternative Dispute Resolution

Jun. 19, 2020

Early neutral evaluation: The road less traveled

Before heading to mediation, try ENE.

Greg Derin

Mediator and Arbitrator
Signature Resolution

Email: gderin@signatureresolution.com

According to the prophet Mick Jagger "[y]ou can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need." Since the advent of the modern alternative dispute resolution movement in 1976, mediation has grown more popular and supplanted private negotiation as the preferred means of avoiding resolution by adjudication.

Mediation has obvious advantages to litigation. Within the limits of having a bargai...

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