Wilk Auslander Offering Alternative Dispute Resolution Services

Stuart applies his experience as a federal judicial clerk and his more than forty years of expe­rience as an advocate to assist parties in resolving their disputes outside the court system, through alternative dispute resolution: arbitration, mediation and early neutral evaluation.

Stuart serves as an arbitrator, and is listed on the Commercial Panel of the American Arbi­tration Association.  He has experience as both a sole arbitrator and as a member of a three-person panel.  Stuart also mediates disputes, helping businesses and individuals to resolve their claims with a settlement that both sides can accept, and that sometimes can yield business outcomes that a litigation cannot provide. 

Because he has these skills, Stuart is also able to offer early neutral evaluation services, either to one side of a dispute or both. Because litigation is expensive and usually distracts clients from their main mission of running their businesses, it can be useful to obtain an evaluation of a case’s likely out­come early in the process, whether after pleadings, after a motion to dismiss, or after early stages of discovery.  An evaluation can range from “you should settle this early to avoid disaster” or “I don’t know why the other side is fighting this,” to “you will need to get some discovery before any realistic evaluation is pos­sible” or “this one is too difficult to call” – and much in between.

Stuart is available for ADR services throughout the country.