Today’s ADR movement is said to have begun at the 1976 American Bar Association/Pound Conference on the Causes of Popular Dissatisfaction with the Administration of Justice. Supposedly, the civil justice system had become unresponsive to the needs of litigants and something had to be done.

How ironic, then, that criticism is now being leveled at the remedy itself: Increasingly, alternative dispute resolution is said to not be meeting the needs and expectations of disputants.

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