LEGAL CLUES ;ONLINE DISPUTE RESOLUTION.
With the right technology, lawyers can resolve disputes cheaply and quickly online. So why are they still using Skype? Chiara Albanese investigates.
With a slight but fundamental change in the acronym, ADR becomes ODR: online dispute resolution.
This niche of dispute settlement applies technological tools to negotiation, mediation and arbitration - or more often to a combination of those techniques.
As internet usage grows, technology is becoming integral to settling disputes.
Effective use of internet-based resources can drive costs down, reduce the time spent on a case and allow for direct interaction between parties located in different places.
But although ODR has been successfully applied by some large companies such as eBay, which has handled online disputes worth a total of $40 million (€27.3 million), it is still mostly used in simpler cases such as disputes between online traders.
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