ALTERNATIVEDISPUTERESOLUTION
Alternative dispute resolution
Alternative dispute resolution includes dispute resolution processes and techniques that act as a means for disagreeing parties to come to an agreement short of litigation. It is a collective term for the ways that parties can settle disputes, with the help of a third party. Despite historic resistance to ADR by many popular parties and their advocates, ADR has gained widespread acceptance among both the general public and the legal profession in recent years. In fact, some courts now require some parties to resort to ADR of some type, usually mediation, before permitting the parties' cases to be tried . The rising popularity of ADR can be explained by the ...The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Alternative dispute resolution
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alternative dispute resolution
Noun
- The resolution of a dispute through negotiation, mediation, arbitration, or similar means, as opposed to litigation.
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