Materials to Supplement Textbook

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Chapter 4

• Materials to Supplement Textbook

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ADR Considerations

• Compare litigation to ADR on the following
• Cost
• Time
• Privacy
• Bitterness

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Possible Disadvantages of Arbitration

• The following points are possible disadvantages
  of arbitration versus litigation
• Lack of appeal rights (but appeals are expensive
  and time consuming)
• Lack of full discovery (but discovery is
  expensive and time consuming)
• Lack of evidentiary standards
• Hidden arbitration clauses (but truly hidden
  arbitration agreements may be unenforceable)

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Possible Disadvantages of Arbitration

• Lack of knowledge regarding the arbitrators
  background (but the parties select the
  arbitrator judges are appointed and may also be
  a mystery)
• Lack of precedent