Your First Arbitration: A Step-by-Step Guide

This program is designed to guide first-time arbitration participants through this unique form of dispute resolution. Attorneys owe their clients the ethical duty of competency when providing legal advice and representation. No attorney should handle an arbitration unprepared. Thus, this program is intended to be an indispensable primer for first-time arbitration advocates and in-house counsel. 

1. Illustrate what they need to think about and do in their first arbitration

2. Break down from beginning to end, how a binding arbitration proceeding is -and should be - different from and better than litigation 

3. Analyze how to plan and conduct an arbitration that is efficient, quick, cost-effective, comparatively informal, tailored specifically to the dispute at hand, and persuasively presented to the parties' specially chosen neutral or arbitration panel

4. Identify best practices and pitfalls for each step of the arbitral process