Strategies for Successful Arbitration: Leading Lawyers on Preparing Your Client, Evaluating Potential Witnesses, and Achieving Success in Dispute Resolution (Inside the Minds)

Strategies for Successful Arbitration presents the thoughts of leading lawyers on preparing your client, evaluating potential witnesses, and achieving success in dispute resolution. It offers a step-by-step guide to the ADR process, beginning with filing an arbitration demand and ending with the award. Topics include:

• Drafting clauses
• Researching the arbitrator or arbitration panel
• Using experts
• Preparing exhibits
• Developing a statement that meets your client's ultimate goal in the proceedings
• Key qualities of successful arbitrators and attorneys

Chapter titles include:

• Introductory Thoughts on Successful Approaches to International Commercial Arbitration
• Arbitration: Some Practical Considerations
• Practical Steps to the Successful Management of Complex Domestic and International Arbitration Proceedings
• Taking Control in Arbitration
• Elements of International ADR
• The Arbitration Process: This Is Not Litigation as Usual
• Managing Risks Through International Dispute Resolution

Appendices contain the Federal Arbitration Act, the Uniform Arbitration Act, a compendium of Latin American arbitration law, a sample order compelling arbitration, a sample defendant's original answer, a sample plea in abatement, a sample motion to compel arbitration, and more.