Description: CADRe is the brainchild of the Courts Appropriate Dispute Resolution Committee, a bench-bar committee chaired by Presiding Judge Frank J. Ochoa, and consultant Robert E. Oakes, a law professor and mediator from San Francisco. Local Court Rule 1102 allows judges to send cases for a CADRe conference to investigate whether an Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) process might assist in settling a case early.
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Legal disputes are often expensive and time-consuming to resolve. In 1996, the Santa Barbara Superior Court’s Appropriate Dispute Resolution Programs Committee began work on a “multi-door courthouse” model designed to offer litigants with pending civil cases several alternatives for resolution of their cases other than traditional litigation of the dispute. The committee’s work culminated in the inauguration of the CADRe Program in July of 1999. As of April 2005 the program enjoys a cumulative total resolut
The Committee developed the following dispute resolution alternatives along with the existing litigation format: