A client's enthusiasm for litigation decreases in direct relationship to the length of time it takes to obtain a final result. As years elapse, filled with ineffective settlement conferences, increasing costs, and continued motion practice, clients anxiously seek to be unencumbered by the litigation's distractions. With trial time at a premium and crowded court dockets, proactive counsel should ask: "Does it make sense to engage a form of alternative dispute resolution rather than to continue litigation?"

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