MaryBeth Guinan's Page

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What is your profession and title?: Board member. Lunt-Lake Cooperative Apartments Trust

What is your ADR experience? (trainings and education): MSIR, labor educator

What, if any, ADR organizations or groups do you belong to?: Chicago Cooperator

What are you hoping to get from ADRhub.com: How to get legal review for ADR language being added to co-op rules.

Do you/your company have a website?: http://Lunt-Lake Cooperative Apts

What other ADR related sites do you visit?: AAA, FMCS, IIT-Kent College Of Law, Program in Litigation and ADR, Loyola Dispute Resolution Program, National Association for Community Mediation, Resolution Systems Institute, Association for Conflict Resolution, Chicago Chapter, JAMS-The Resolution Experts

What else do you want to tell the ADRhub.com community (what you are up to, what you would like to do in ADR, etc.): Would like comments on ADR rule our housing coop is adding to our rules.

MaryBeth Guinan's Blog

How to get review for ADR language being added to co-op rules?”

Posted on February 2, 2014 at 5:46pm 0 Comments 0 Likes

Hi. I am writing ADR language into our coop rules. (Our co-op is a housing trust, and Illinois association laws don't apply.) I already got approval for mediation and arbitration clauses from FMCS, for no charge. But the Board still wants a lawyer to approve the language. I think a lawyer won't care about language that is not part of the third-party steps. Why spend shareholders' money for nothing? We promised shareholders that ADR would eliminate legal fees. And if we have to find someone…

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