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Alternate Dispute Resolution Handbook
1 Alternate Dispute Resolution Handbook Contents History .. 1 Overview .. 1 Benefits .. 2 Glossary and Terms .. 2 Alternative Discipline Practices .. 8 History The first uses of alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) processes began experimentally in the 1970s as a potential remedy for disabling court backlogs, and as Resolution techniques for environmental and natural resource disputes . In 1985, the Attorney General issued an order recognizing the need for ADR to reduce the time and expense of civil litigation. A few years later the Department of Justice again recognized the benefits of ADR in the Congressional testimony of its Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, who supported the first ADR legislation enacted by Congress in 1990.
1990 and 1996, and the Alternative Dispute Resolution Act of 1998) which, collectively, required each agency to adopt a policy encouraging use of ADR in a broad range of decision making, and required the federal trial courts to make ADR programs available to litigants. These initiatives also include the Civil Rights Act of 1991; the National
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