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Alternative Dispute Resolution

Report
A glass half full, a glass half empty : the use of alternative dispute resolution in mass personal injury litigation
A glass half full, a glass half empty : the use of alternative dispute resolution in mass personal injury litigation
Jan 1, 1995
Report
Evaluating Agency Alternative Dispute Resolution Programs: A Users' Guide to Data Collection and Use
Prepare a manual and develop prototype data collection instruments to assist those with responsibility for evaluating federal agency alternative dispute resolution programs.
Jan 1, 1995
Report
Many doors? closing doors? : alternate dispute resolution and adjudication
Many doors? closing doors? : alternate dispute resolution and adjudication
Jan 1, 1995
Report
Does ADR really save money? The jury's still out
Does ADR really save money? The jury's still out
Jan 1, 1994
Research Brief
Escaping the Courthouse
Crowded courts and escalating litigation costs are fueling demand for private alternatives to courts. But not everyone thinks that the burgeoning market in private courts and private judges is desirable.
Jan 1, 1994
Report
Escaping the Courthouse: Private Alternative Dispute Resolution in Los Angeles
This study profiles private alternative dispute resolution (ADR) in Los Angeles. The study focused on all civil money suits in Los Angeles county in 1992 and 1993.
Jan 1, 1994
Report
Private Dispute Resolution in the Banking Industry
This monograph examines the use of private alternative dispute resolution (private ADR) by firms in the banking industry in response to a perceived liability crisis in the 1980's.
Jan 1, 1993
Report
Arbitrating High-Stakes Cases: An Evaluation of Court-Annexed Arbitration in a United States District Court
Court-annexed arbitration, which requires the referral of civil cases to nonbinding arbitration before a lawyer-arbitrator, has become an increasingly common feature of civil procedure, ...
Jan 1, 1990
Report
The Perception of Justice: Tort Litigants' Views of Trial, Court-Annexed Arbitration, and Judicial Settlement Conferences
This report investigates the attitudes and perceptions of individual plaintiffs and defendants in personal-injury tort cases in three state courts.
Jan 1, 1989
Report
Judicial Arbitration in California: An Update
Reports the findings of a 1987 survey of court officials undertaken to determine the status of California's judicial arbitration program. It also describes how local courts have implemented the program, analyzes selected program outcomes,...
Jan 1, 1989
Report
Alternative Adjudication: An Evaluation of the New Jersey Automobile Arbitration Program
In 1985, New Jersey implemented a statewide program of mandatory court-administered arbitration of automobile injury lawsuits.
Jan 1, 1988
Report
What We Know and Don't Know About Court-Administered Arbitration
This Note, a reprint of an article that originally appeared in the February-March 1986 issue of Judicature, summarizes the results of research conducted by the Institute for Civil Justice in the area of court-administered arbitration.
Jan 1, 1986
Report
Court-Annexed Arbitration: The National Picture
Reports the findings of a national survey to determine the current status of court-annexed arbitration among state and federal trial courts, and is an update of a similar survey conducted by The Institute for Civil Justice in 1980, and published as R2732
Jan 1, 1985
Report
Court-annexed arbitration in the state trial court system
Research effort has been directed toward investigating the use of court-annexed arbitration in the state trial courts, and evaluating the effectiveness of this type of arbitration for managing the civil caseload and alleviating the burdens that the l...
Jan 1, 1984
Report
Court-Ordered Arbitration: The California Experience
A shortened version of a study published as R-2733-ICJ, examines the experimental court-ordered arbitration program established in California in 1979, in an effort to determine whether court-ordered arbitration reduces court congestion ...
Jan 1, 1984
Report
Reforming the civil litigation process: how court arbitration may help
This paper, originally published in the New Jersey Bell Journal, Summer 1984, describes some factors contributing to the congestion, delay, and expense that currently trouble the country's civil courts. It describes court-administered arbitration, an...
Jan 1, 1984
Report
Introducing Court-Annexed Arbitration: A Policymaker's Guide
Court-annexed arbitration is a court-run dispute resolution process to which cases that meet some specified criteria are involuntarily assigned.
Jan 1, 1984
Report
Court-Administered Arbitration: An Alternative for Consumer Dispute Resolution
This Note presents the preliminary results of a year-long study of the Pittsburgh (Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas) arbitration program.
Jan 1, 1983
Report
Simple Justice: How Litigants Fare in the Pittsburgh Court Arbitration Program
Examines the arbitration program of the Pittsburgh (Allegheny County) Court of Common Pleas which at the time of the study applied to cases of $10,000 or less.
Jan 1, 1983
Report
Judicial Arbitration in California: The First Year
A study of the critical implementation phase of the California judicial arbitration program. The report begins by identifying the primary objectives of the program's supporters.
Jan 1, 1981

RAND Topic:
Alternative Dispute Resolution

Topic Synonyms:
ADR;
External Dispute Resolution

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