Special Masters: How to Make the Best of Both Worlds (Part II)
Washington partner Merril Hirsh had his article – “ Special Masters: How to Make the Best of Both Worlds,” Part II (which was co-authored with ADR practitioners Jim Rhodes and Karl Bayer) – published in Disputing on November 20.
The article is, according to the publication, the second 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. “OK, so in Part One we all agreed that we need to give people a better choice than the one between a system of civil litigation that does a great job of permitting appeals, but is perceived to be, or is, too cumbersome or expensive to resolve disputes; and a system of arbitration that, one hopes, is cheaper, but does not permit, at least the judicial appeal that parties might wish to have available if the arbitrator gets it ‘wrong,’” the trio states in their opening. “So what is the better choice?”
Read the article in full for the answer.