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Alternative Dispute Resolution

Success in ADR depends on more than legal arguments alone. IMS helps counsel clarify complex issues, evaluate competing positions, and develop compelling narratives that support productive negotiations and informed resolution decisions.

Whether pursuing an efficient settlement or preparing for a final hearing, rely on our integrated expert and consulting solutions to achieve the best possible outcome under tight timelines.

Clarity creates leverage in high-stakes ADR matters.

Alternative dispute resolution often moves quickly and involves significant financial, operational, and reputational considerations. The accelerated pace and stakes of ADR place even more importance on strategic preparation. When decisions are binding, you need to be confident that your arguments will land correctly with the audience. Experienced arbitrators and mediators expect clear, well-supported arguments from the outset.

IMS helps legal teams assess case strengths and risks, develop data-backed strategies, refine narratives, and deliver persuasive presentations. Our ADR experience spans:

  • Commercial and contract arbitration
  • Mediation and settlement negotiations
  • Securities and investment disputes
  • Antitrust and competition matters
  • Real estate and construction disputes
  • Healthcare arbitration matters
  • Cross-border and international arbitration
  • Proceedings before AAA, JAMS, FINRA, ICC, and other leading forums

ADR offers a streamlined path for resolving commercial disputes, but success depends on a strong foundation and the ability to clearly communicate the key issues to decision-makers with specialized expertise. Explore how we can support your ADR strategies below.

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Integrated Support Across the Full ADR Lifecycle

IMS provides the insight, expertise, and objective perspective needed to reduce uncertainty and move negotiations and proceedings forward with confidence. Our teams work together at every stage of an ADR matter, helping clients engage world-class experts, evaluate damages, shape case themes, test positions, and build custom demonstratives for presentation to an arbitrator, mediator, or panel.

We also offer access to a network of experienced mediators and arbitrators who understand the complexities of high-stakes disputes and facilitate informed, efficient resolution across a wide range of industries.

Featured Case Study: Iron Ore Expert with Immediate Availability

When a technical expert withdrew weeks before an ICC proceeding in London, IMS identified, vetted, and presented eight qualified iron ore and steel manufacturing experts in just two days, ultimately securing a replacement with nearly 30 years of hands-on industry experience.

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Featured Case Study: Using 3D Models to Dispute an Illegal Mine Closure

When a government allegedly shut down a mining operation based on pollution and health concerns, our visual experts developed a detailed 3D tabletop model illustrating extraction levels and operational conditions. The demonstrative became a valuable communication tool for explaining complex technical information throughout the dispute.

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Alternative Dispute Resolution Services

  • Expert Advisory & Analysis

    • Economics & Finance: Quantify damages and reasonable settlement ranges to inform case strategy heading into mediation or arbitration
    • Litigation Surveys & Rebuttals: Conduct consumer and market research where brand, trademark, or advertising issues are part of an ADR matter, as well as rebuttal analysis of opposing survey or damages methodology
    • Statistics, Sampling & Econometrics: Secure expertise in statistical and sampling methodology to support the damages position presented to an arbitrator or mediator

  • Expert Witness Search

    • Custom Expert Witness Search: Quickly locate niche subject-matter experts across securities, antitrust, real estate, construction, and other specialized industries for arbitration and mediation hearings, with engagement support that enables clients to focus on strategy
    • Technical Expert Witness Search: Source technical and engineering experts on demand for complex ADR matters involving intellectual property
    • Medical Expert Witness Search: Engage credible medical experts for personal injury matters resolved through mediation or arbitration rather than trial

  • Dispute Resolution Consulting

    • Strategy & Theme Development: Shape a compelling case narrative for presentation to an arbitrator, mediator, or panel of experienced decision-makers
    • Mock Arbitration Proceedings: Test case themes, evidence, and settlement positions through mock arbitration exercises before a hearing
    • Trial Graphics & Multimedia: Build powerful demonstratives, including interactive timelines through our exclusive technology, Chronos®, designed for the fast-paced, dynamic discussions common in mediations, arbitrations, and settlement hearings
    • Presentation Technology: Ensure exhibits and expert testimony are delivered seamlessly in arbitration hearings, mediation sessions, and settlement conferences, including in multi-week proceedings with heavy documentary evidence

Our expert’s findings aided us in properly evaluating the case, which in turn assisted us in reaching an agreeable settlement of the matter.

Partner, Am Law 200 Firm

Our clients were quite impressed by both sets of detailed animations, and the tribunal was very engaged when I was talking through them. IMS really helped bring our claim to life.

Partner & Solicitor Advocate, Chambers & Partners Band 1 Firm

FAQs

Commercial and contract disputes, construction and engineering claims, securities and investment disputes, antitrust matters, real estate disputes, and international commercial disputes are all commonly resolved through arbitration or mediation, particularly where the parties want to preserve a business relationship, maintain confidentiality, or resolve a cross-border matter more efficiently than court litigation allows.

IMS can be engaged at nearly any stage, but early involvement, before a mediation session or an arbitration hearing, offers the greatest benefit. Early engagement allows time for expert witness search and vetting, strategy and theme development, and the design of graphics or interactive timelines that can be refined and tested well before the hearing date.

IMS expert witness search teams source and vet experts for arbitration panels, mediators, and other ADR forums, in addition to trials. Experts are matched for subject matter expertise and their ability to present credibly outside a courtroom setting.

Yes. IMS supports ADR matters domestically and internationally, including proceedings before institutions such as the AAA, JAMS, the ICC, and FINRA. For cross-border disputes, IMS’s international arbitration team provides support tailored to multi-jurisdictional cases.

Strategy and theme development, mock arbitration exercises, and visual advocacy all translate directly into ADR preparation, adapted for an arbitrator or mediator's perspective. Our perspective is grounded in decades of practical experience in 70,000+ cases spanning all industries.

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We bring a unique perspective based on decades of practical experience in 70,000+ cases spanning all industries.

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