{"id":27432,"date":"2022-02-17T18:50:16","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T23:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/?page_id=27432"},"modified":"2022-02-19T08:12:31","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T13:12:31","slug":"16-pre-conf","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/guidance\/adrguide-home\/16-pre-conf\/","title":{"rendered":"Preliminary ADR Conference"},"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;\">Preliminary ADR Conference<\/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\"><p>Once an ADR judge neutral is assigned to a case, the judge typically will schedule a telephone conference to discuss ADR and the role the parties wish him\/her to play.\u00a0 With so many ADR processes available at the CBCA, the judge neutrals look to the parties to help describe the role they would like the neutral to perform.\u00a0 This is the time for the parties to ask any questions they may have about ADR processes and to describe the role they want to the judge to perform during the proceedings. \u00a0 Parties that have not already participated in a contract dispute ADR are encouraged to ask the judge neutral questions about how a contemplated ADR process operates and what to expect.<\/p>\n<p>After the telephone conference (or if they choose, before), the parties will submit an ADR agreement setting forth in detail the rules they agree to follow regarding the ADR proceeding. \u00a0 An ADR agreement must be executed before an ADR proceeding can begin, and may address, among other things, the date and time for the ADR proceeding, document submissions, role of the judge neutral, issue(s) to be addressed, and confidential position papers. \u00a0 Samples of ADR agreements may be found in the free manual published by the American Bar Association (ABA) Public Contract Section titled\u00a0“Practicing before Federal Contract Appeals Boards,” which can be found on\u00a0the <a href=\"https:\/\/cbca.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CBCA\u2019s website<\/a> or on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanbar.org\/content\/dam\/aba\/administrative\/public_contract_law\/practicing-before-fed-board-of-contract-appeals.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ABA\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\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\/27432"}],"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=27432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27432\/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=27432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}