Why come to us:

The commercial approach we adopt to resolving disputes means we recognise the paramount importance of assessing the parties' strengths and weaknesses at an early stage and in developing a strategy for achieving the best and easiest solution involving a proportionate and economic outlay.  Increasingly this involves the use of mediation or other alternative dispute resolution (ADR) techniques such as early neutral evaluation.

Our alternative dispute resolution lawyers have acquired substantial experience of ADR techniques and developed real expertise in using the different processes involved as a tool to achieve the client's goal.  The timing of a proposal or agreement to embark upon ADR - or whether to do it all - can be crucial to the successful outcome of a dispute.  We use our experience to balance the cost risk of refusing an offer of ADR with the possibility that the process will simply add cost and divert focus from what may already be complicated litigation without achieving more.  We aim to ensure that ADR is used at the optimum time for the client and only when the process offers a real opportunity to reach a satisfactory resolution of the case.  Often ADR is particularly appropriate where the parties wish to retain existing business relationships or the client requires a dispute to be resolved quickly and confidentially.

Who to contact:

Ross Risby
020 7293 4182
rrisby@dac.co.uk

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Alternative dispute resolution

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