California Practice Guide Rutter Alternative Dispute Resolution December 2024

The California Practice Guide: Alternative Dispute Resolution is a comprehensive practical resource explaining traditional and evolving ADR methods. Written by experienced arbitrators and mediators, the practice guide covers the rules governing each ADR process, including negotiations, minitrials, mediation, collaborative law, private judging, contractual arbitration, and much more.

• Strategic considerations
• Negotiations
• Settlement and enforcement of settlement agreements
• Mediation and other nonadjudicatory methods
• Domestic relations mediations, including collaborative law and other nonadjudicatory dispute resolution processes
• Construction disputes ADR
• Judicial arbitration and other court-ordered ADR
• Contractual arbitration (California Arbitration Act and Federal Arbitration Act)
• Private judging
• Disclosure and disqualification
• Drafting ADR agreements

Features include:

• Citations to the latest cases available, plus statutes and rules of court
• Topics and procedures developed step by step, with practice pointers, showing you what, when, where and how to do it
• Illustrations that are based on actual cases
• Practice-tested forms that conform to the latest rules with comments and suggestions for their use