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Featured speakers offer their takes on how proceedings have changed, including the importance of finding the right setting through the use of virtual and hybrid proceedings. They also discussed how virtual proceedings have made ADR accessible to more people&mdash;and at a lower cost&mdash;and their belief that the future of ADR will be vibrant, diverse and increasingly reflective of the needs of parties across the globe.</p></div>\r\n              </div>\r\n            </div>\r\n          </div>","custom_s_blog_overview":"In this video, captured during JAMS&rsquo; 2021 &ldquo;Cocktails and Conversations&rdquo; event on the future of alternative dispute resolution, JAMS neutrals and prominent leaders within the legal industry reflect on the growth and transformation that have taken place within the industry since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Featured speakers offer their takes on how proceedings have changed, including the importance of finding the right setting through the use of virtual and hybrid proceedings. They also discussed how virtual proceedings have made ADR accessible to more people&mdash;and at a lower cost&mdash;and their belief that the future of ADR will be vibrant, diverse and increasingly reflective of the needs of parties across the globe.","custom_dt_tag_sort_date":"2022-02-09T00:00:00Z","custom_dt_blog_date":"2022-02-09T00:00:00Z","custom_dt_page_date":"2022-02-09T00:00:00Z","custom_s_display_date":"February 9, 2022","custom_s_year":"2022","custom_s_month":"2","custom_ss_blog_author":["47815"],"custom_ss_neutral_id":["47815"],"custom_ss_tag_neutral_fullname":["Ranse Howell"],"custom_ss_blog_category":["virtual","arbitration","mediation","coronavirus"],"custom_ss_blog_category_name":["Virtual & Remote ADR","Arbitration","Mediation","COVID-19 Business Disruption"],"custom_ss_blog_category_link":["/blog/category/virtual-remote-adr","/blog/category/arbitration","/blog/category/mediation","/blog/category/coronavirus-covid19"],"custom_ss_practice_id":["45422","61459","45454","45512","61680"],"custom_dt_last_published":"2022-02-09T22:19:04Z","language":"en","_version_":1724325712593158144,"score":1.0},{"id":"165224","url":"165224","custom_s_category":"blog","custom_s_category_search":"blog","custom_s_url":"/blog/2022/wittenberg-carol-nylj-uninteded-consequences-12-2022","custom_s_source_name":"New York Law Journal","custom_s_tag_source_name":"New York Law Journal","custom_s_author_id":"37202","custom_t_tag_neutral_fname":"Carol","custom_s_tag_neutral_lname":"Wittenberg","custom_t_tag_neutral_nickname":"","custom_t_tag_neutral_maidenname":"","custom_s_tag_neutral_fullname":"Wittenberg - 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st_url='https://www.jamsadr.com/blog/2021/omicron-and-the-ongoing-pandemic-accepting-the-virtual-future-of-adr' st_summary=''> </span>\r\n                        </div>\r\n                      </div>\r\n                        \r\n                        <h4><span class=\"thin\">Posted in:</span> <a href=\"/blog/category/mediation\" class=\"url fn\">Mediation</a>, <a href=\"/blog/category/virtual-remote-adr\" class=\"url fn\">Virtual & Remote ADR</a>, <a href=\"/blog/category/coronavirus-covid19\" class=\"url fn\">COVID-19 Business Disruption</a></h4>\r\n                      <div class=\" details-blg-bottom \">\r\n                        <a href=\"https://www.jamsadr.com/blog/2021/omicron-and-the-ongoing-pandemic-accepting-the-virtual-future-of-adr\" class=\"more-link\">READ MORE</a>\r\n                      </div>\r\n                    </div>\r\n                    <div class=\"blog-post-bottom\">\r\n                      <div class=\"details-blg-footer\">\r\n                       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Gise</u></h6></a>\r\n                        \r\n                </div>\r\n                <div class=\"author-target disable\">\r\n                \r\n                          <div class=\"d-none d-lg-flex\">\r\n                          <a href=\"/gise\">\r\n                            <img class=\"author-img-small\" src=\"/images/neutrals/gise-robin.jpg\" alt=\"Author Image\">\r\n                            </a>\r\n                            <div class=\"d-flex flex-column my-auto\">\r\n                            <a href=\"/gise\">\r\n                            <h5 class=\"grey-text my-auto ml-2 text-uppercase\"><u>Robin H. Gise</u></h5>\r\n                            </a>\r\n                          </div>\r\n                          </div>\r\n                        \r\n                </div>\r\n                <a href=\"#\" class=\"show-authors disable\">Show Authors <i class=\"fas fa-chevron-down ml-4\"></i></a>\r\n                <a href=\"#\" class=\"hide-authors disable\">Hide Authors <i class=\"fas fa-chevron-up ml-4\"></i></a>\r\n                <div class=\"mt-2 d-none d-lg-block line-clamp\"><p>When I started conducting mediations and arbitrations on Zoom almost two years ago, I could not have imagined that I would still be doing so today and that my practice and the alternative dispute resolution (ADR) field would be so fundamentally altered. In March 2020, I was thrilled to be able to mediate on Zoom and other videoconferencing platforms. When the pandemic first hit and the cancellations and adjournment requests piled up, I started to panic. Thankfully, my first virtual mediation <a href=\"https://www.jamsadr.com/blog/2020/effective-mediation-by-videoconference-a-neutrals-use-of-zoom-during-the-covid-19-crisis\">went very smoothly</a>. Almost a year later, having become adept at virtual mediation, I shared <a href=\"https://www.jamsadr.com/blog/2021/effective-virtual-mediation-10-lessons-after-10-months\">tips and techniques</a> for successful virtual mediations. But I always figured I&rsquo;d return to in-person mediations eventually. September 2021? The Delta variant changed that. January 2022? Now Omicron is here.</p></div>\r\n              </div>\r\n            </div>\r\n          </div>","custom_s_blog_overview":"When I started conducting mediations and arbitrations on Zoom almost two years ago, I could not have imagined that I would still be doing so today and that my practice and the alternative dispute resolution (ADR) field would be so fundamentally altered. In March 2020, I was thrilled to be able to mediate on Zoom and other videoconferencing platforms. When the pandemic first hit and the cancellations and adjournment requests piled up, I started to panic. Thankfully, my first virtual mediation <a href=\"https://www.jamsadr.com/blog/2020/effective-mediation-by-videoconference-a-neutrals-use-of-zoom-during-the-covid-19-crisis\">went very smoothly</a>. Almost a year later, having become adept at virtual mediation, I shared <a href=\"https://www.jamsadr.com/blog/2021/effective-virtual-mediation-10-lessons-after-10-months\">tips and techniques</a> for successful virtual mediations. But I always figured I&rsquo;d return to in-person mediations eventually. September 2021? The Delta variant changed that. January 2022? 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