Originally from Alternatives to the High Cost of Litigation

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Gary Doernhoefer, the founder of ADR Notable, a mediation case and practice management software at www. adrnotable.com, suggested that I produce this menu of checklists. ADR Notable is an app providing case and practice management software to help mediators handle case intake, bill clients, manage client documents, develop checklists and task reminders, take notes, build documents, and manage client relationships generally.

Gary recognized that our respective work complements one another. I wrote a series of publications leading to what I call the Real Practice Systems Project. John Lande, “Real Practice Systems Project,” Indisputably.org (Dec. 20, 2022) (available at https://bit.ly/3V2LudS). I became dissatisfied with traditional dispute resolution theories, which are greatly oversimplified and don’t provide realistic portrayals of actual practice.

These theories can mislead practitioners and parties about what to expect in their cases. Part of the problem is that mediation is complicated and variable, even in the simplest cases.