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Arbiter Lance Descourouez Wins Vistage Cope Award

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Media Contact Jackie Flaten, for Just Resolve 650-468-6252  |  jdflaten@gmail.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Just Resolve’s Business Arbiter awarded Top Honor in Global Leadership Organization Silicon Valley’s Lance Descourouez, international business consultant, mentor and community leader provides expert guidance as arbiter for Just Resolve, a firm changing how business justice is delivered October 6, 2016 – SAN JOSE, CA – Just Resolve, a business which provides a revolutionary way to fairly and economically resolves common legal disputes, announced today that oneRead More

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Proportionality in Dispute Resolution: Breathing Through Your Legal Downward Dog

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Some of us were not meant to be yogis. Downward Dog is more accurately Face-plant Dog for some people. Balance, right? Who knew it could be so difficult? Lately though, there’s been a great deal of chatter about finding balance. In fact, achieving balance appears to have surpassed many previously elevated goals such as making as much money as possible, maintaining triathlete level fitness standards, or even raising a first-chair-violin-and-home-run-hitting valedictorian. The renaissance of balance, of proportionality, means that weRead More

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What’s in it for Them?

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SO YOU GET IT. You know what’s in it for you. You want neutral-driven dispute resolution in your business contracts. But to make this happen, the other side also has to agree. Since it’s less well known, and not yet standard in industry contract templates, you’ll probably need to propose Just Resolve for any disputes that arise, or at least for disputes up to some comfortable level of money stakes. When you do, and if your counterpart has not heardRead More

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What’s in it for Me?

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If I’m a business owner or in-house lawyer, why would I use an alternative dispute resolution service like just Resolve? How will it benefit me and/or my company? Well, like any new product or service, Just Resolve has to be better, faster, or cheaper, than the alternatives (litigation, arbitration, mediation, or doing nothing). Here’s what’s in it for you! SAVE MONEY: Just Resolve is cheaper than the alternatives. Unlike competitors, Just Resolve’s non-adversarial dispute resolution service has a fixed (orRead More

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Client Centric Lawyers

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What does it mean to be a client centric lawyer? Lawyers get a bad rap sometimes and are seen as money grubbing slime-balls who bleed their clients for every dime they have. Now, that may be true in the movies but it hasn’t been true in my experience as an attorney. Most lawyers I know and have come across have been very client centric and are concerned about what is best for their client. (Whether the client listens to theirRead More

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Strengthen Client Relationships with Just Resolve

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One question we often get at Just Resolve is about the role of attorneys in the Just Resolve process. In short, Just Resolve delivers an alternative dispute resolution (“ADR”) service that does not require lawyer participation. However, Just Resolve is useful for client centric lawyers (those who care more about their client’s best interests than short term legal fees) even if their services are not required. This article will explain several ways Just Resolve’s method can be used to furtherRead More

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Who Decides?

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The ultimate decision maker can be one of the most important factors in resolving your dispute. Is your dispute being decided by a judge or a jury? Or an arbitrator or panel of arbitrators? Or is a mediator helping you come to an agreement? Or a proactive arbiter? Let’s take a look at the roles of each in more detail. Judges Judges are either appointed (at the Federal level) or elected (at the State level, with an outright election orRead More

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“You Can’t Sue Me, We’ve Agreed to Resolve It!”

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A common question we at Just Resolve have been asked is what a party can do if there is a written mutual agreement to use our “resolve” method, but then one party reneges by going to court instead. Due to Just Resolve’s similarities to other forms of dispute resolution such as mediation and Dispute Review Boards (DRBs), a party should be able to compel the other party to abide by the agreement and submit to Just Resolve’s process. Just ResolveRead More

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Runaway Costs and Domino Delays: Innovative Ways to Resolve Subcontractor Disputes

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Deciding Factors in Choosing a Dispute Resolution Method, And Why It Matters Whenever a disagreement can’t be settled in a couple conversations, it may become necessary to choose a dispute resolution method to resolve such disagreement.  Consequently, you should know a few things about the available dispute resolution methods. First, you should know your options – currently there are at least six basic methods (see the accompanying table), and second, you should know when it makes sense to use eachRead More

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Why Litigate: When would you WANT to choose litigation?

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Why would you want to litigate? Previously, I wrote an article on reasons why you should avoid litigation. Now, I’ll take a look at the other side of the coin and discuss when litigation might be the more appropriate solution. There are many reasons people end up in litigation. Usually, someone – or, more likely, both parties – think they are right or they don’t see any other choice. Although this may be true, it does not offer any strategicRead More

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