{"id":27449,"date":"2022-02-17T18:52:48","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T23:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/?page_id=27449"},"modified":"2022-02-17T18:52:48","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T23:52:48","slug":"30-saving","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/guidance\/adrguide-home\/30-saving\/","title":{"rendered":"Saving Costs to Exchange Information"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-1 fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-two\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:31px;margin-left:0px;\"><h2 class=\"title-heading-left\" style=\"margin:0;\">Saving Costs to Exchange Information<\/h2><span class=\"awb-title-spacer\"><\/span><div class=\"title-sep-container\"><div class=\"title-sep sep-double sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:#e0dede;\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><div><strong><u>Why Would Litigation be More Expensive<\/u><\/strong>? \u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Generally speaking, litigation uses formal procedures and rules of evidence to ensure that only reliable, probative, and relevant evidence reaches the judge or jury. \u00a0This is important; a rights-based process that uses the power of the government to impose a decision on the losing party\u00a0should only rely\u00a0on well-tested information. \u00a0Aside from the procedures to test the information, litigation is also a teaching process whereby parties must help the judge or jury learn about the underlying facts, relevant law, and the parties’ positions in order to render a decision. \u00a0The testing of evidence and the education process in trial takes time, effort, and expense. \u00a0 While these procedures cost money, the rights of individuals need to be preserved.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><strong><u>How Does Mediation or Other Forms of\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><strong><u>Assisted\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><strong><u>Negotiation Save Money<\/u>?\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>ADR can save money because the parties require less background education about a case than a judge, and they can use their own\u00a0judgment as to whether they have sufficiently reliable information to settle their own case. \u00a0It is very common to have little or no\u00a0document discovery, depositions, audits, or other formal processes prior to a mediation. \u00a0Instead, the parties ask each other for information during their joint sessions and have their documents readily available if needed. \u00a0By simplifying and speeding the exchange of relevant information, the parties save procedural expenses. \u00a0In fact, the earlier the parties start their ADR process, the more opportunity they have for saving procedural costs.<\/div>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":27194,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27449\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}