Alternative Dispute Resolution
Jun. 23, 2006
An Early Look Into Med-Mal Mediation Saves Money for All
Focus Column - By Robert S. Luft - In a 1986 address to the American Law Institute, Chief Justice Warren Burger defined the role of the trial advocate as "gaining an acceptable result for a client, in the shortest possible time with the least amount of stress and at the lowest possible cost to the client."
By Robert S. Luft
In a 1986 address to the American Law Institute, Chief Justice Warren Burger defined the role of the trial advocate as "gaining an acceptable result for a client, in the shortest possible time with the least amount of stress and at the lowest possible cost to the client."
His statement sounds like an endorsement for mediation. The timing of the mediation is an important co...
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