Fall 2018 issue
Professors Heather Heavin and Michaela Keet, “Litigation Risk Analysis: Using Rigorous Projections to Encourage and Inform Settlement”
In response to widespread concerns about litigation costs and ‘access to justice’, lawyers generally accept that assessing risk is an inherent dimension of their work. Many still prefer, however, vague and imprecise conversations about litigation risk. This paper presents the results of an empirical study, exploring lawyers’ experiences with risk assessment approaches and tools. It identifies challenges and ‘turning points’ as lawyers wrestle with risk projections. It also outlines a simple, practical framework for guiding litigation risk analysis. A lawyer who is well-rooted in the foundations of the risk assessment task will, we suggest, be better able to provide full and transparent assessments - to the client, and even to a mediator who may be facilitating settlement conversations
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The Journal
The Journal of Arbitration and Mediation (the Journal) was the first bilingual peer-reviewed Canadian publication to focus exclusively on dispute prevention and resolution. It is a joint initiative of the Université de Sherbrooke, Faculty of Law, Université de Montréal, Faculty of Law, Osgoode Hall Law School and the Winkler Institute for Dispute Resolution (at Osgoode Hall Law School). Since 2010, it has published some 50 texts dealing with a wide range of issues and concerns of central importance to the field.
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Family Dispute Resolution
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Legal Ethics and Alternative Dispute Resolution
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Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Dispute Resolution
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Aboriginal Dispute Resolution Mechanisms
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How Technology is Changing Dispute Resolution