During this year of COVID-19, courthouses have been repeatedly challenged with closures and delayed start-ups. New York has been one of the more ambitious states to cautiously recommence civil trials, albeit at a slow pace. The many moving and complex parts of civil cases make it very difficult to break up the court log jams wrought by the pandemic. Consequently, attorneys and clients who seek to resolve cases by year-end 2020 or in the first quarter of 2021 will face a clogged court calendar. Parties have the option, however, to bypass an overburdened court system by turning to alternative dispute resolution (ADR) to settle their disputes more quickly and less expensively. Here’s how!