Tag Archives: ADR

Resolving Disputes with Arbitration
by Bryan Lane Berson Parties to legal disputes often reflexively consider suing one another in litigation. As an alternative, parties can use alternative dispute resolution (“ADR”), including arbitration and mediation. My May 2012 and December 2013 columns discuss mediation, which is a form of facilitated negotiation. Litigation is a process governed by complicated procedure. A […]

Building Conflict Competence: Improve Conflict Resolution & Workplace Mediation
by Bryan Lane Berson, Esq. An organization should multiply individuals’ efforts. Personnel create goods and services, and customers transform them into revenues by purchasing them. Viewed as a supply-chain, departments within an organization are consumers of other departments’ products. Feuds, politics, and turf wars waste effort and distract personnel from serving customers and generating revenue. […]