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Forum, formerly known as the National Arbitration Forum (NAF) is an American organization that provides arbitration and mediation services to businesses, based at its Minneapolis headquarters and offices in New Jersey. The organization was founded in 1986.
JAMS, formerly known as Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Services, Inc. [1] is a United States–based for-profit organization of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) services, including mediation and arbitration. [2] [3] H. Warren Knight, a former California Superior Court judge, founded JAMS in 1979 in Santa Ana, California. [4]
USADR was founded in 2005 in Colorado to offer arbitration and mediation services under the name Colorado Mediators & Arbitrators. [2] The original Rules of Procedure were drafted by an attorney whose primary experience was as a NASD investigator. Its predecessor, Vision Mediation Group, LLC (2003-2005), limited ADR services to mediation.
The American Arbitration Association (AAA) is a non-profit organization focused in the field of alternative dispute resolution, providing services to individuals and organizations who wish to resolve conflicts out of court, and one of several arbitration organizations that administers arbitration proceedings.
The National Academy of Arbitrators (NAA) is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) honorary and professional organization of labor arbitrators in the United States and Canada that was founded in 1947. [1] Its avowed purpose was "to foster the highest standards of integrity, competence, honor and character among those engaged in the arbitration of ...
Former Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service headquarters in Washington, D.C. (now demolished). The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service was created as an independent agency of the federal government under the terms of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (better known as the Taft–Hartley Act) to replace the United States Conciliation Service that previously operated within ...
When standard mediation isn’t successful, Cooper says there are limited options in court. “It’s often a case of a jointly owned dog… and you can’t cut the dog in half,” he says.
Hugh L. Kerwin (right), the first Director of the U.S. Conciliation Service, dining in 1924. The origins of the service lay in the act that created the Department of Labor in 1913, [1] which act stated that the department would have the power to step in to act as a mediator in labor disputes whenever "the interests of industrial peace may require it to be done."