Driven to cyberspace by the pandemic, courts across the country purchased chatroom-like tools designed to help people resolve disagreements without the need for a full-on lawsuit, judge, or hearing.

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 ...

July 11, 2025 - Imagine it's the year 2040. Corporate disputes are no longer resolved by lawyers. Instead, artificial intelligence (AI) records the facts from available data, automatically prepares ...

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) is pervading all aspects of the legal profession, and many professionals are questioning the current and future application of AI within each specific practice ...

Although the godfather of online dispute resolution, Ethan Katsh, once observed that "the power of technology to resolve disputes is exceeded by the power of technology to generate disputes," as human ...

Optional mediation language preserves flexibility by allowing parties to decide, once a dispute arises, whether mediation makes sense under the circumstances. At the same time, pa ...