Dispute Resolution
Arbitration, mediation and negotiated settlement — resolution without the cost curve of full litigation.
Detailed overview
Not every dispute belongs in court. Where a contract provides for arbitration, or where both sides have reason to keep matters private, alternative resolution is usually faster, more confidential and far more controllable.
We act as counsel in institutional and ad hoc arbitration, advise on the arbitration clause itself — which is where most arbitrations are won or lost — and represent clients in mediation and structured settlement negotiation.
The team also handles the court-facing side of arbitration: interim measures, challenges to awards, and recognition and enforcement of domestic and foreign awards.
- Arbitration clause drafting and dispute-resolution design
- Institutional and ad hoc arbitration as counsel
- Mediation and structured settlement negotiation
- Expert determination and adjudication
- Interim measures in support of arbitration
- Challenges to and enforcement of awards
- Multi-party and cross-border disputes
- Pre-action assessment and resolution strategy
Why you might need this service.
If one of these describes your situation, a short conversation will establish whether there is a matter worth pursuing.
Your contract requires arbitration and proceedings have been commenced.
You want a commercial dispute resolved privately and quickly.
An award has been made in your favour and needs enforcing.
A relationship is worth preserving even though the disagreement is real.
The attorneys handling dispute resolution.
Before you make contact.
Submit the consultation form on this site, call the office, or email our intake address. We aim to acknowledge every enquiry within one business day and to offer an appointment within three. Where a matter is time-critical — an arrest, an injunction, a deadline that expires this week — say so in your first message and we will treat it accordingly.
A named partner or senior associate is responsible for every file and remains your point of contact throughout. Work is delegated within the team where it is efficient to do so — document review does not need partner time — but supervision does not move, and you will always know who is accountable.
Depending on the matter: hourly at the rate of the lawyer doing the work, a fixed fee for defined scopes such as documentation or a licence application, or a retainer for continuing advisory work. Whichever applies, you receive a written engagement letter setting out the basis, the rate and the estimate before any chargeable work begins.
Yes, directly, and at the first opportunity. A candid assessment early is worth considerably more than an encouraging one that changes eight months and a large invoice later. Where a case is weak we will explain why, and whether anything can be done to strengthen it.
Speak to the dispute resolution team.
Describe what has happened in a few sentences. We will tell you whether it is a matter we should take, what it would involve, and what it would cost.
- Direct line
- +1 (212) 555-0142
- Response time
- Every enquiry acknowledged within one business day.