Business Disputes: Alternative Resolutions to Litigation

This course has been discontinued.

Design professionals - engineers, architects, surveyors and others - work with developers, clients and attorneys on a daily basis. Unfortunately, having a dispute over business issues such as fees, expenses, services and contract requirements is inevitable during the life of a business professional. This course will help you become familiar with what is known as Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR). You will learn how to lower the hostility, clearly see the issues from both points of view, and resolve the dispute. This interactive online course provides techniques to do so as quickly and as inexpensively as possible so that you are not dragged into the court system. In addition, this course examines the leading causes of business disputes involving design professionals. It analyzes the techniques and mechanisms used to resolve disputes without litigation.