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Alternative Dispute Resolution

Jul. 20, 2013

Fast and roughly right: a new strategy for decision-making

Business students and young entrepreneurs who have been raised in the age of the Internet are well trained to think fast and accept "roughly right" decisions.

Jan Frankel Schau

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ADR Services, Inc.

1900 Ave of the Stars Ste 250
Los Angeles 90067

Email: jfschau@adrservices.org

Loyola Law School; Los Angeles CA

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It is July, and your client has urged you to get through with the pending litigation as quickly and efficiently as possible. You call the court to schedule a hearing on a motion for summary judgment and the first available date is next May. You delicately broach the subject of ADR with your opposing counsel, select a busy mediator who can fit you in sometime in late August, and you and your client arrive for a full day's mediation hearing at 10:00 a.m. with great expectations. By 3:00 p....

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