How Are Special Masters Perceived?
Washington partner Merril Hirsh had his article (co-authored with ADR practitioners Jim Rhodes and Karl Bayer) published in Disputing on March 16. The article is the eighth in a series that discusses the role of Special Masters in complex litigation and how litigants can best use them to improve their litigation experience.
“We’ve now spent several posts extolling the virtues of using special masters in such fervent tones that the invention of sliced bread has begun to pale by comparison. So why aren’t people using special masters on a routine basis to obtain these terrific benefits?” the authors joke. “Way back in Part One of these series we noted that, rightly or wrongly, the rap on arbitration for some time has been that (1) although it should be less expensive than litigation, in practice, it is not; and (2) there is a risk of having a decisionmaker get it wrong without the meaningful possibility of appeal. So what is the ‘rap’ on special masters?”
Read here to find out.