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47 Emory L. J. 1289 (1998)
ADR as Litigation Lite: Procedural and Evidentiary Norms Embedded within Alternative Dispute Resolution

handle is hein.journals/emlj47 and id is 1299 raw text is: ADR AS LITIGATION LITE: PROCEDURAL AND EVIDENTIARY NORMS EMBEDDED WITHIN ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION Jack M. Sabatino * INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................... 1290 I. THE VARIETIES, GROWTH, AND PROMOTION OF ALTERNATIVES TO TRADITIONAL ADJUDICATION ............................................................. 1296 II. LITE PROCEDURAL ANALOGUES WITHIN ADR ............................... 1303 A. Notice of Contentions and ofADR Events .................................. 1304 B. Discovery, Alias Information Exchanges .............................. 1309 C. Partisan Submissions to Neutrals ............................................... 1316 D. Inducing the Attendance of Persons and the Production of Things ......................................................................................... 1320 E. Other Procedural Analogues ...................................................... 1323 III. LITE EVIDENTIARY ANALOGUES WITHIN ADR ............................... 1324 A. The General Role of Evidentiary Principles in ADR ................. 1324 B. Containing Scope: Materiality and Relevance ........................... 1327 C. Concerns over Hearsay or Other Indirectly-Supplied Infor- m ation ......................................................................................... 1330 D. Honoring Privilege and Confidentiality ..................................... 1334 E. Other Evidentiary Strands .......................................................... 1335 IV. IMPLICATIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ............................................ 1337 A. For Courts .................................................................................. 1338 B. For ADR ..................................................................................... 1347 V. CONCLUSION ....................................................................................... 1349 . Associate Dean, Rutgers-Camden Law School. B.A. 1979, Yale College; J.D. 1982, Harvard Law School. The author has frequently served as an arbitrator and mediator for the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey. He has also served as a court-appointed member of the New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on Complementary Dispute Resolution and as a member of the Advisory Committee for the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey on the Implementation of the Civil Justice Reform Act of 1991). 'he author's views are, of course, his own and should not be construed to reflect the position of any court nor ofany disputant that has participated with the author in an ADR process. He is grateful for the excellent work performed by his research assistants, Kevin D. Walsh and Audrey Winograd, as well as for the helpful comments on earlier drafts provided by James Boskey, Richard Cohen, Edward Dauber, Howard Erichson, Ann Freedman, Rand Rosenblatt, and Linda Stamato.

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