Originally from Alternatives to the High Cost of Litigation

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The Administrative Conference of the United States, at the end of 2021, released an examination of federal government alternative dispute resolution practices, and provided a series of recommendations to increase the use of conflict resolution procedures at executive branch agencies.

ACUS has long been invested in ADR. The new report points to a 1987 government guide to federal agency ADR that provided what was generally recognized as the first set of guidance on the subject. The guide had followed agency-issued ADR recommendations earlier in the 1980s.