Please estimate the number of separate matters in which you acted in a professional capacity for a party within the last year for these dispute resolution processes. Please estimate the number of separate matters in which you acted as a neutral within the last year for each of these dispute resolution processes. Litigation involving a business diverts economic resources from more productive activities. Dispute resolution processes which don't involve a judge's binding decision are detrimental to the development of the law. Business relationships involved in commercial disputes are preserved better by non-judicial dispute resolution processes than by judicial processes.
Legal practitioners make the best neutrals to conduct non-judicial dispute resolution processes.
Dispute resolution processes which don't involve a judge's binding decision permit unjust results to be reached without public scrutiny. Legal practitioners should routinely encourage clients to choose the dispute resolution process the client feels is most appropriate for their dispute. Litigation is generally well adapted to the needs and practices of the business community. There is too much emphasis on compromise and settlement in non-judicial dispute resolution processes at the expense of the application of the law. If you wish to provide any comments on the value or appropriateness of non-judicial dispute resolution processes please do so in the space provided below and over the page.