Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)
There are many ways to resolve a dispute that can be done alongside court proceedings, or that can avoid them completely. We’ll help you to decide what approach is best for you, and then to implement it effectively.

Litigation is certainly one way to resolve disputes, but it sometimes consumes a lot of time and resources. Other methods can be better ways to bring matters to a satisfactory close, either in combination with litigation or instead of it. We have all the experience required to guide you – both in choosing an approach and ensuring that you use it to best effect.

In mediation and negotiation, our specialist legal skills are valuable, alongside our commercial and industry sector expertise and our focus on your priorities and objectives. But that’s not the whole picture. The way that you behave – including both conscious choices and instinctive non-verbal cues – can also have a huge effect on other people’s emotions and responses, and therefore on the outcome of the process. We explore this in our popular training course ‘Psychology of Mediation and Negotiation’, which provides a practical introduction to these concepts so that you can communicate most effectively.

Our expertise includes:

Guidance through and representation in the entire process of mediation
Conducting adjudication proceedings throughout the UK in construction-related disputes
Advice and representation in high-value arbitrations, both in the UK and overseas
Expert determination
Negotiation
Facilitation
Mini-trial
Early neutral evaluation
Training on the non-legal, and even non-verbal, behaviours that can encourage a positive outcome

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Iain Drummond

Partner and Head of Commercial Disputes and Regulation

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Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)There are many ways to resolve a dispute that can be done alongside court proceedings, or that can avoid them completely. We’ll help you to decide what approach is best for you, and then to implement it effectively.

Our expertise includes:

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Lisa Ambrus

Colin Archibald

Elaine Brailsford

Nathaniel Buckingham

Gillian Carty

Iain Drummond

Carly Duckett

Leonore Dupont

Alec Fair

Christopher Garden

Gabriella Gilmour

Kirsty Gray

Stephanie Hepburn

Leigh Herd

Shona Lean

John MacKenzie

Thomas McFarlane

Laura McMillan

Matt Phillip

Ben Pilbrow

Alexandra Roobottom

Hayley Russell

Philip Sewell

Ben Sheppard

Ross Simpson

Sarah Walker

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Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)
There are many ways to resolve a dispute that can be done alongside court proceedings, or that can avoid them completely. We’ll help you to decide what approach is best for you, and then to implement it effectively.