Administrative Policies

Among other things, people have been told that arbitration is cheaper and faster. What they've experienced in practice many times, however, is that sometimes arbitration takes just as long and is wrapped with just as many layers of bureaucracy and can cost as much or more than civil justice.

People never come into arbitration without having signed an agreement to settle a dispute privately, opting out of the trial courts with their rules of law and rules of procedure and juries and decisions being overseen by appellate courts.

When your clients enter an arbitration process, their intention is to have their dispute resolved outside the formalities and rules of the court system. Although more relaxed than the court system, arbitration still has plenty of procedural rules. The first rule is that the arbitration requires an administrator for the arbitration process and the selection of one or more arbitrators.

In your client's case, the administrator is JAMS.