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Esford ADR
Commercial Arbitration
Why Esford ADR?
Meet Denny Esford
Denny's legal career began in the early 2000's, traveling the country as part of an e-Discovery team for Kirkland & Ellis where he conducted custodian interviews of engineers and managers to ferret out hardcopy and electronic discovery for BP and the MTBE Contamination MDL in the SDNY. In 2013, Denny founded Windy City Trial Group and the same year became a Certified Arbitrator. He has now decided 100+ cases in both the public and private arbitration space.
Denny also spent 20 years at OEM, Tier One and Tier Two manufacturers with roles in engineering, sales and management, including GM, Square D and United Technologies. Denny is also a former Senior Editor of the industry trade journal Cutting Tool Engineering. He has kept in touch with his manufacturing roots by engaging former colleagues at conferences and trade shows such at IMTS in Chicago and WESTEC in Los Angeles.
The Esford Arbitration Alternative
Denny leverages his manufacturing and litigation expereince to help sophisicated vendor-supplier relationships settle their comparatively smaller disputes within the overall contract. Multi-year contracts to supply critical, custom, high-tolerance components in volumes responsive to changing market conditions inevitably leads to disputed individual purchase orders. Effective resolution needs to be fast, cost-effective and preserve the long-term vendor-supplier relationship--a rare trifecta if the alternative is outside counsel and a courtroom.
Let's Work Through This®
Courts have rigid rules. Private arbitration permits the parties to achieve confidential resolution outside the confines of Civil Procedure and the Rules of Evidence. This can be accomplished in a timeframe faster than discovery deadlines in state or federal court, let alone getting to the merits.
What sophisticated parties need is a neutral arbitrator with the substantive experience necessary to understand the underlying issues quickly, with limited discovery, little to no witnesses, at a fixed arbitrator cost that makes sound business sense for the value of the dispute. No company needs to spend $100,000 in lawyer fees and costs to resolve a $300,000 purchase order dispute in a public forum arising from a multi-year blanket contract. Instead, 30 days and $5,000 is more than enough time and money to confidentially settle a $300,000 purchase order dispute with the right process. And a virtual arbitration option means the parties can focus on finding the best arbitrator regardless of geography.
Mediation by Caucus
If mediation makes more sense for a particular dispute, Denny has been trained in virtual mediation using the Caucus Method, and with 20 years of additional experience settling cases before magistrate judges in U.S. District Courts across the country.
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