1. Describe arbitration and discuss its advantages to litigation. 2. Describe mediation and discuss its advantages to litigation. Describe two other forms of alternate dispute resolution and discuss their advantages to litigation. Not copy and paste from text. Solution 1. Arbitration is a form of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) within which the parties resolve their dispute with the help of a third party without any intervention from the court. Litigation is the use of court processing to resolve a dispute. Alternative dispute resolution offers an alternative way to resolve the disputes outside a court in an informal and cooperative way. It provides a faster way to resolve the dispute between two parties as compared to litigation. Cost involved in arbitration process is significantly lower than that of the litigation. Furthermore, arbitration process also helps to maintain the confidentiality of dispute unlike litigation process..