Traditional and Nontraditional Litigation

Basically, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) is taken as a way of resolving conflict in a confidential though informal way. Litigation on the other hand can be described as a process where a lawsuit is maintained and defended. Nontraditional forms of ADR avail alternatives to the traditional litigation system. In this text, I will concern myself with the main differences as well as similarities between the nontraditional forms of ADR and the traditional litigation system.

Traditional Litigation and Nontraditional forms of ADR

Differences

According to Beatty and Samuelson (2009), nontraditional forms of ADR are cheaper than the traditional litigation system. This essentially means that in terms of costs, the traditional litigation system comes across as being more expensive. While the costs associated with nontraditional forms of ADR are limited to arbitrator fees and the fees of the attorney, the traditional litigation system could in addition to attorney...
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