The Benefits of Building a National ADR Program: Staying Out of Court and Mitigating Risk

Overview

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Who Should Attend

Staffing, recruiting, and workforce solutions legal professionals, chief executive officers, presidents, and financial officers

Highlights

Alternative dispute resolution (ADR) can be a critical tool in resolving disputes, maintaining employee happiness and culture, and mitigating the risk that comes with being involved in a gig economy or temporary workforce company. But often ADR programs are fragmented, depend on the location of the neutrals, and do not focus on scalability and uniformity.

Having a national ADR program that uses both mediation and arbitration, or even a combination of both, can provide employees with a sense of fairness, eliminating perceptions of bias. This also can allow employers to focus on their processes and streamline procedures to help eliminate the distractions and reduced productivity that often come with litigation. An ADR program also might help keep your company out of court. Listen to attorneys and ADR professionals discuss these matters and explain how a national ADR program can help you.

During this webinar, attendees will learn 

• Why using purely regional neutrals and a more fragmented, non-uniform ADR process can result in employee skepticism and disparate results and can take more time, money, and bandwidth than necessary
• Why a national ADR program can create uniformity and scalability across an organization while giving employees and contractors a better sense of the process and better understanding of why it is fair
• How to use the different types of ADR by themselves or in conjunction to resolve disputes quickly, efficiently, and cost effectively
• How to set up a national ADR program and what should be included

Presenters

Facilitated by

Collin Williams

founder and chairman, New Era ADR

Williams is the founder and chairman of New Era ADR. Williams was previously general counsel at Reverb.com, a digital marketplace for the buying and selling of musical instruments, gear, and equipment. Reverb was listed as one of Inc. magazine’s fastest-growing companies in 2017, 2018, and 2019. Williams ran Reverb’s acquisition by Etsy in 2019 for $275 million. 

Panelists Include:

Neil Alexander

partner, Littler

Alexander is a shareholder at Littler Mendelson in the Phoenix office. He previously served on the firm’s Board of Directors and was co-chair of the Staffing, Independent Contractors and Contingent Workers Practice Group. Alexander’s practice includes counseling clients on employment risk management for employee workforce or individual employee decisions, workforce design and maximizing contingent worker options while ensuring compliance, contingent workforce co-employment exposures, compliance with the ADA and the FMLA, and other legal issues.

Sarah Kroll-Rosenbaum

partner, Akerman

Kroll-Rosenbaum is the team leader of Akerman’s Staffing Law sector, which offers staffing companies coordinated counsel as they navigate a complex landscape of novel compliance, regulation, and litigation challenge. She is a trusted strategic advisor to her clients, with whom she collaborates closely to design and execute litigation strategies through the lens of their business priorities. In recent years, Kroll-Rosenbaum has led the defense of dozens of temporary staffing companies in class, collective, and representative actions, including California Private Attorneys General Act claims. In these cases, among others, she has argued extensively in state and federal courts across the country, including the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and in arbitration.

Ariel Zion

chief legal officer, Insight Global

Zion serves as chief legal officer of Insight Global, where she oversees both the legal and security organizations for the company—including all legal compliance and litigation, physical and industrial security, and safety. A former private practice commercial and employment litigator, Zion joined Insight Global in 2017 and has been instrumental in building teams and critical functional areas within the company’s legal department, as well as focusing on developing excellent legal talent. She counsels the business on all areas of risk and compliance, while first and foremost being a partner to enable business growth. Zion graduated from the University of Texas at Austin and earned her juris doctor degree from Cumberland School of Law at Samford University.

This webinar qualifies for 1.0 hour of CE toward maintaining your ASA credential.