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Why has non-litigation dispute resolution become so popular?
“The reality of today’s overcrowded and expensive system of justice has made alternatives to litigation not just more attractive, but increasingly the only way to help ensure an efficient system of justice.”
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Talbot “Sandy” D’Alemberte
Former President, American Bar Association
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Conscientious attorneys, church leaders and business leaders consider creative dispute resolution to be their number one choice for solving everything from minor disagreements to complex disputes that previously required tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal costs and years of court system delays to resolve. Today, more than sixty percent of Fortune 500 corporations have pledged to use non-litigation dispute resolution processes.
Large businesses, as well as anyone else familiar with the litigation process, have come to recognize that litigation is not only expensive, public, and uncertain (in that it denies them the opportunity to control the manner or details of how their conflicts are resolved), but that it also extracts a terrible human toll on the participants.
As U.S. Supreme Court Justice Learned Hand once said, “As a litigant, I should dread a lawsuit beyond almost anything short of sickness and death.”
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