For decades, the legal profession has grouped mediation and arbitration under the term Alternative Dispute Resolution or ADR. The label made sense when litigation in court was the standard path, and ...

Although familiar to everyone in the legal community, the definition of ADR is more complicated than the three simple letters of its acronym. Alternative Dispute Resolution encompasses well-known ...

Jeffrey K. Anderson, chair of the Dispute Resolution Section, writes: I submit that mediation as a means of seeking justice has proven itself when compared to trial by jury as a mechanism worthy of co ...

BIRMINGHAM, GB / ACCESS Newswire / April 29, 2026 / Effective Dispute Solutions has released an industry-focused update addressing the expanding role of mediation in resolving disputes across business ...

The Council and the European Parliament have reached a provisional agreement to update, simplify and facilitate the existing alternative dispute resolution (ADR) framework, with the aim of making ...