Alternative Dispute Resolution

Billing

Contingent Fees

Legal Services Corporation

Loser Pays Systems

Mediation/Arbitration

Prepaid Legal Services

Pro Bono

Participants' Web Site Suggestions

Evan Seamone (alternative dispute resolution)

American Arbitration Association (with links to many ADR resources).

Richard Zitrin & Carol M. Langford, "The Billing Abuses of Lawyers," in The Moral Compass of the American Lawyer: Truth, Justice, Power and Greed (Ballantine Books, 1999) (from the "'Lectric Law Library").

Lawyers.com, "Alternative Dispute Resolution" (an introduction and summary with a few resource links).

Georgia Civil Justice Foundation, "Keys to the Courthouse: Quick Facts about the Contingent Fee System."

"Press Room" (for links to such categories as statutes, budgets, statistics, testimony and client stories).

Doreen D. Dodson, "FY 2001 Appropriations for the Legal Services Corporation," March 31, 2000. (Statement on behalf of the American Bar Association before the House Appropriations Committee, Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the Judiciary and Related Agencies).

Walter Olson, "How Greedy Can You Get?" from The Litigation Explosion (July 1991). (A discussion of the problem: law suits that produce for lawyers multiples of the amounts received by their clients.)

Thomas Sowell, "Costs and Decisions," Townhall.com Conservative News and Information (August 2, 2000). (Advocacy for a loser pays system.)

"Mediation and Arbitration," from the "Everyday Law Series" of HALT: An Organization of Americans for Legal Reform. (A basic description of mediation and arbitration.)

Buck Wolf (ABCNews.com), "HMOing the Law: Can Prepaid Legal Services Counteract Rising Attorney Fees?" (April 16, 1999). Go to Legal Club.com and click on "More Articles and Press Releases," scroll to the bottom and click on the article.

Community Legal Services Fund (England and Wales).

Lawyers.com, "Pro Bono Programs."

http://www.fresno.edu/pacs/careers.shtml  Alternative Dispute Resolution Careers

http://faculty.biu.ac.il/~steing/conflict/uslinks.htm  Conflict Resolution Programs in the United States

http://www.colorado.edu/conflict/program.htm  Conflict Research Consortium

http://www.gradschools.com/listings/distance/peace_distance.html  GradSchools.com: Peace Studies/Conflict Resolution

http://www.mediate.com/articles/index.cfm?doc=spier.cfm&title=The%20Ten%20Biggest%20Mistakes%20Lawyers%20Make%20in%20Mediation  Richard G. Spier, "The Ten Biggest Mistakes Lawyers Make in Mediation"