Arbitration

  

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What is arbitration? Was it Shakespeare who mused about killing all the lawyers? Henry the 6th or something? Hmmm…

Well if he’d done so, that’d make arbitration…not necessary.

So first…what IS arbitration? Well, basically it’s the adjudication of a case outside of the formal normal court system, which is massively clogged in the U.S....like, needs-a-million-gallon-enema kind of clogged.

The cost of fully adjudicating cases (that is, pursuing a lawsuit all the way to a judgement) has become astronomically expensive, not to mention time consuming. The process is also filled with silly loopholes that make getting to a real conclusion painful, if not impossible.

So it has become common practice for parties entering a partnership or contract in whatever form to agree to arbitration if a big fat hairy conflict arises down the road. In arbitration, both sides just hire their own separate judge…usually a retired judge from the normal court system with a lot of miles on her tires.

In arbitration, everyone simply relies on the arbitrating judge to be… fair. Lots of silly loopholes go away and quote justice unquote in whatever form is arrived at…faster. And if that doesn’t work…you can always do things the Shakespeare way.

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