{"id":1462,"date":"2014-07-18T11:43:44","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T15:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businessconflictmanagement.com\/blog\/?p=1462"},"modified":"2014-07-18T11:43:44","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T15:43:44","slug":"proposal-to-require-adr-notice-in-letters-of-engagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessconflictmanagement.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/proposal-to-require-adr-notice-in-letters-of-engagement\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposal to Require ADR Notice in Letters of Engagement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Unified Court System of the State of New York is considering a modification to its Rules that would require attorneys to include in their letters of engagement reference to the ADR options and resources available at the courts&#8217; web site.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal (available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courts.state.ny.us\/rules\/comments\/PDF\/PC%20Request%20Rule%201215.pdf\">here<\/a>) is subject to public comment until September 8 at rulecomments@nycourts.gov. \u00a0The suggestion may be a unique one.<\/p>\n<p>I know that Colorado has an ethical requirement that its attorneys advise clients of alternatives to litigation, and of course many states have court-annexed programs either encouraging or requiring mediation of litigated cases. \u00a0But I am unaware of a Court Rule requiring attorneys to give notice of the availability of ADR in the course of their being engaged.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone else?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York State courts are considering a requirement that lawyers advise clients of ADR options.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,40,35],"tags":[8,39,38,33],"class_list":["post-1462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conflict-resolution","category-courts","category-ethics","tag-adr","tag-courts","tag-lawyers","tag-public-policy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessconflictmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessconflictmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessconflictmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessconflictmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessconflictmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessconflictmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessconflictmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessconflictmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessconflictmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}