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Alternative Dispute Resolution

Jan. 14, 2021

Is that important?

Mediation briefs routinely contain pages and pages of unimportant details. Some describe in the most excruciating manner every aspect of the procedural history of the case.

Robert S. Mann

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ADR Services, Inc.

Email: rmann@adrservices.com

In one of the last episodes of the captivating HBO series "Boardwalk Empire," the protagonist, Nucky Thompson, finds himself besieged by enemies, his "empire" crumbling. He has barricaded himself, along with a few members of his entourage, in a heavily fortified home, expecting at any moment a full-fledged attack by his criminal enemies. In this middle of this pandemonium the phone rings. The caller is Arnold Rothstein, in real life the famous New York gambler and in ...

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