New York County Lawyers Association Committee on Arbitration and ADR Comments on Success of ADR Program in United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York Offer Encouragement to Users of ADR and Suggest Action by Corporate Counsel

5 “Report of the Advisory Group/Committee on Civil Litigation on the Evaluation of the Court’s Mediation and Early Neutral Evaluation Programs,” dated October 9, 1996.

6 $46,000 for one FTE attributable to the 100 EDNY ENE cases studied by RAND. RAND ADR Report, Summary at xxxi, and 248-249.

7 $47,000 total annual cost attributable to the 100 EDNY ENE cases studied by RAND. Id.

8 The SDNY FTE annual cost was $178,000, and the SDCA’s FTE annual cost was $383,000.

9 Total annual cost was $205,000 for the SDNY and $384,000 for the SDCA.