ONLINE DISPUTE RESOLUTION: LESSONS LEARNED IN PANDEMIC CAN LAY FOUNDATION FOR FUTURE SUCCESS
CORTNEY YOUNG is a Mediator and Arbitrator at ADR. Ms. Young spent over a decade with the Litigation and Trial team at Chapman Law Firm, which has resolved millions of dollars annually in eminent domain and other real property claims. Ms. Young’s approach to dispute resolution combines years of litigation experience with a pragmatic problem-solving style. Ms. Young’s mediation practice is focused on the resolution of a wide variety of disputes, including, but not limited to, asset valuation, eminent domain, securities, probate and trust disputes, dissolution of marriage, breach of contract, homeowner association disputes, foreclosure and super-priority mediation, boundary disputes, landlord-tenant, employee disputes, and complex civil litigation. Ms. Young is available for mediations throughout the United States.
There’s nothing like a cataclysm to push the profession into the world of tomorrow. Over the past year, most practitioners have had their litigation and settlement paradigms completely upended—with most discovering the brave new world of online mediation. Fortunately, although online mediation is novel to many practitioners, it has been slowly developing over the past few decades. As such, when the world turned upside-down in 2020, infra-structure, best practices, and protocols already existed to facilitate a fairly painless transition to online settlements of litigated cases. With the sud-den influx of a critical mass of practitioners into the field of online dispute resolution, the systems have been refined, tested, expanded, and solidified over the past year—turning what was once a novelty or option of last resort into a mainstay of practice…