Originally from Alternatives to the High Cost of Litigation

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Consistent readers of this newsletter through the years won’t be surprised by the remarkable trajectory of the dispute resolution field, the increased use of alternative dispute resolution processes throughout the 
conflict resolution landscape, the revolutionary embrace of mediation by courts and governmental agencies in both the state and federal systems, and the maturation of the academic study of the process and substance of dispute resolution.

But what may be less well understood is how the dispute resolution field intertwines with the principles, doctrines, and practices of particular fields of law, excepting those fields in which a lawyer has practiced with some degree of regularity