A study of 449 cases administered by four major providers of ADR services showed that mediation was capable of setting 78 percent of cases, regardless of whether the parties had been sent to mediation by a court or bad selected the process voluntarily. Mediation also cost far less than arbitration, took less time, and was judged a more satisfactory process than arbitration.
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