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The best way to deter threats of litigation and minimize the costs, duration, and distractions of resolving any dispute is to put a dispute resolution clause …
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Many people are surprised by how effective NDR can be. Since publishing my book and speaking at events about NDR (Neutral-Driven Resolution), I’ve often been …
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The Morgan Hill Times featured Rob’s new book in an article ahead of his “Meet the Author” night at Booksmart. “Legal disputes and conflicts cost businesses …
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Not all business and legal disputes are alike, and not all of them can be resolved in the same way. In writing my book Just Right: How Neutral-Driven Resolution …
Read article →New Alternative Dispute Resolution Book Describes Innovative Method **to Lower Costs, Aggravation of Business and Legal Disputes ** A Neutral-Driven Resolution …
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It sounds crazy, but it’s all too true: a limited-stakes dispute over $47,000 costing more than one-and-a-half times that in legal fees in a failed attempt to …
Read article →NDR – Neutral-Driven Dispute Resolution – is a less costly and less adversarial way to settle limited-stakes business disputes. It’s driven by neutral judges, …
Read article →If you run a small or medium size business, one of these days you’re going to have a dispute – with a client, a vendor, customer, or supplier. It will happen. …
Read article →Business disputes are expected to grow in 2021-2022, but litigation and conventional arbitration can be poor options. The movement toward non-adversarial …
Read article →The value of Just Resolve’s Neutral Driven Dispute Resolution (NDR) service is best illustrated by comparing the time and money required for the NDR process to …
Read article →In a world of rapid change, running a business is harder than ever before. While the pandemic slowed some activities, many business owners have seen …
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Life moves quickly and businesses need to work hard to keep pace. Along the way, it is not uncommon for stressful legal issues to arise. Whether conflicts come …
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It’s Covid Time. None of us saw this coming. Vacations, weddings, rent payments, jobs, and so much more, all thrown into chaos, and with that chaos comes …
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***I’ve been working on my upcoming book about our neutral-driven dispute resolution. It begins with a litigation nightmare from my own law practice about a …
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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 …
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The number one consideration for choosing a dispute resolution service is making sure your neutral is good, whether they are a mediator, arbitrator, or arbiter; …
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After interviewing many business owners to find out what their top considerations are in choosing a dispute resolution service, I’ve compiled a list of the 5 …
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This fourth and final installment in the series of articles on innovation in the legal field covers what innovations are happening. The prior articles focused …
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By Guy Kornblum I have a passion for dispute resolution. It comes from my heritage – a dad who was a lawyer in the Midwest in the 50’s, 60’s and until he …
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As you know, what we do at Just Resolve is promote and facilitate neutral-driven, non-adversarial ADR (“Alternative Dispute Resolution”) in legal disputes where …
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Tamara Pow received a Women of Influence 2017 award from the Silicon Valley Business Journal last week and Rob and Sonya were fortunate enough to join this …
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Even though it may feel like a steep uphill climb for in-house counsel to force law firms to innovate, there are things that in-house counsel can do to …
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Picture this: ten friends slogging their way up Mt. Kilimanjaro – each one carefully copying the foot placements of the person in front of him. Now add in …
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As a follow-up to my recent article “Why Won’t Law Firms Innovate?,” where the answer was in part that their in-house counsel won’t force them to, I’ve had the …
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Most law firms still use an “opportunity cost” model to charge by the hour, regardless of outcome and how much is at stake. The reason law firms don’t change …
Read article →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 …
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Get back to business
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When time & margin matter most
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When costs consume stakes
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For limited stakes disputes
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When capital is precious
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Before problems become lawsuits
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Far too often, businesses turn to litigation for disputes that simply do not require the amount of time and money that litigation demands. Even more …
Read article →Monica Desai is a practicing attorney in Washington, D.C who recently decided to join Just Resolve as an Arbiter. Her practice focuses on advising clients from …
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Unfortunately, no matter how careful you are in running your business, litigation strikes almost every American business today. Companies seem to be sued over …
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Is there truly a difference between an arbiter and an arbitrator? It may sound like semantics, but the distinction in calling the decision makers at Just …
Read article →Anne Jordan is a practicing attorney in Chicago who recently joined Just Resolve as an Arbiter. Ms. Jordan has been mediating and arbitrating disputes since the …
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Recently, Anon Moose, LLC. and NOYB, Inc.* had a $23,000 contract dispute that early negotiations failed to settle. In an effort to bring about an amicable …
Read article →Over the past few months, we’ve been collecting litigation nightmares through our website, email, and in person at conferences and events. After hearing …
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How do you know if you are caught in a litigation costs black hole? When I first entered the practice of law I worked in-house at Sega, the video game company. …
Read article →Who decides the outcome of your dispute when you can’t resolve it yourself? The answer, as any good lawyer will tell you, is “it depends.” It depends on what …
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Every litigation attorney encounters the circumstance at one time or another: a long-standing client approaches you with a stubborn, …
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You suffer the irate voicemail, the missing payment, faulty product, unmet deadline, or an escalated service issue. One thing is always true: it involves a …
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It would be great if arbitration were THE alternative answer to litigating in courts with over crowded dockets and ever shrinking budgets, but arbitration …
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Whether a business manages hundreds of contracts per year or only a few for key relationships, contracts are a fundamental component of risk management for …
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Litigation can be expensive and one of the largest expenses of any litigation is finding information. Of those dollars devoted to discovery and investigation …
Read article →The Dispute Our latest Resolve involved a laboratory services contract that specified the payment of about $28,000 in penalties if the customer delayed the …
Read article →California is in the third year of cuts, and the state’s courts are taking a $660 million hit: $350 million in the latest budget cuts and another $310 million …
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