The Practice of Corporate Law

Alternative Dispute Resolution Settlements and Negotiations is an authoritative, insider's perspective on best practices for being successful in alternative dispute resolutions. Featuring partners and chairs from some of nation's leading firms, these experts guide the reader through the intricacies of the ADR process, including important differences and similarities between the resolution choices clients have. Included in the test, these top layers give tips on how a client can work successfully with counsel to attain the best possible outcome, how counsel can use different negotiation techniques depending on the stile of a particular mediator, and how counsel facilitates the resolution process while avoiding the most common deal killers in particular circumstances. Within the test, the authors outline the values of using facilitative mediation, evaluative mediation, and binding mediation, and discuss when it is appropriate to use each. Additionally, these leaders reveal their strategies for planning defensively, keeping abreast of change, and finding creative solutions in a variable area of law. The different niches represented and the breadth of perspectives presented enable readers to get inside some of the great legal minds of today as these experienced lawyers offer up their thoughts around the keys to success within this ever-evolving field.

Chapters Include:

• 1. ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION IN EMPLOYMENT DISPUTES, Theodore O. Rogers Jr., Partner Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
• 2. WHEN TO LITIGATE, WHEN TO MEDIATE, AND WHEN TO ARBITRATE, Richard J. Rabin, Partner Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
• 3. USING ADR TOOLS TO SOLVE THE PROBLEMS OF FINANCIALLY-DISTRESSED BUSINESSES, Lisa Hill Fennin Partner Dewey Ballantine LLP
• 4. A LAWYER'S PERSPECTIVE ON ADR, Thomas R. Johnson, Partner Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham LLP
• 5. ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION: THE IMPORTANCE OF PREPARATION IN MEDIATION PROCEEDINGS, Thomas R. Kline, Partner Andrews Kurth LLP
• 6. IN THE CONTEXT OF ADR, George Brandon, Partner Squire, Sanders & Dempsey LLP
• 7. LITIGATION VS. ADR, Richard L. Hanson, Partner Preston Gates Ellis & Rouvelas Meeds
• 8. A TRIAL LAWYER LOOKS AT ADR, John B. Kearney, Partner Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll LLP
• 9. THE MAJOR CONCERNS ABOUT LITIGATION AND THE MAJOR COMPONENTS OF ADR, Dr. Alan Rudlin, Partner Hunton & Williams LLP
• 10.ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION: THE IMPORTANCE OF PROACTIVE COUNSELING, Steven R. Gilford, Partner Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP

About Inside The Minds:
Inside the Minds provides readers with proven business intelligence from C-Level executives (Chairman,CEO,CFO,CMO,Partner)from the world 's most respected companies nation-wide, rather than third-party accounts from unknown authors and analysts .Each chapter is comparable to an essay/thought leadership piece and is a future-oriented look at where an industry, profession, or topic is headed and the most important issues for the future. Through an exhaustive selection process, each author was hand-picked by the Inside the Minds editorial board to author a chapter for this book.