Originally from Alternatives to the High Cost of Litigation

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An Argentinean and a Brazilian walk into a coffee shop to complain about their problems. …

That could be the opening line of a reasonably good joke, but it is actually how this article began. The authors—an in-house attorney from Argentina and outside counsel from Brazil—engaged in an interesting conversation on alternative dispute resolution and, in particular, on the most important relationship within an ADR proceeding: the attorney—client relationship.

Hours later, and enough coffee to wake up the dead, we came up with what we have called the “Ten Commandments for Teaming Up in an ADR Proceeding.” Far from the religious Ten Commandments, ours intend to improve the relationship between corporate counsel and in-house lawyers.