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According to the American Bar Association’s (A.B.A.) Model Rules of Professional Conduct, “[a] lawyer is a representative of clients, an officer of the legal system and a public citizen having special responsibility for the quality of justice.”

A lawyer’s varied roles include advisor, advocate, negotiator, intermediary, and evaluator. Lawyers are generally concerned only with legal issues and conditions that directly affect a specific case. In addition, the legal profession commonly reflects an individualistic and non-collaborative view. Finally, social justice is not an explicit goal of the legal profession. Lawyers see justice as the efficient result of an adversarial system; as long as they serve their clients well, justice is served in that process.

Attorneys have a central commitment to serve their clients. They act as advocates for their clients, help their clients determine what their needs are, and then, help them to meet those needs. Advocates use a problem-solving approach to address their clients’ needs and resolve issues. Hence these professionals could be deemed to be social workers considering the public interest and so far as focussing the life of the people with direct services which could facilitate their clients with conveniences like short period for attaining justice at most reasonable expenses and at the most stimulating vision in respect of scheming win-win propositions for the contesting parties.

So far as the lawyers are infected with the judicial system resulting out of heavy, tardy and tedious court litigation, there may be remote possibility on their part of the lawyers to get inclined towards low volume remunerated automated online dispute resolutions. Lawyers are aware of the fact that they involve in the conflict areas taken to court trials include expense, which a common client finds it difficult to co-ordinate or afford along with other discomforts like time pressure and other related legal hindrances. The lawyers may be probably in the process of realising the issues of their existing as well as prospective clients.

A lawyer’s goal is to win the case for his client, and in order to do so, it is usually necessary and appropriate to give advice to the client. Hence there is a chance for a lawyer taking the baton of a social worker rather helping his clients than merely advising them. The introduction of the platform Soft Settle could cater to the requirements of the lawyer to play the role of a social worker. He is not confined to mere advising the clients but helps the clients to come out of the troubles he has been confronted with.

Legal community is going to be encountered with certain challenges as a result of many functions traditionally performed by lawyers will be soon replaced by software systems. The integration of technology into the practice of law has been advantageous for the clients so far the basic legal activities to the effect of dispute resolution would be carried out with ease, flexibility, cost reduction, fast, fair and efficient.

SoftSettle Support has evolved research methods to create technologies, which are needed for realizing the promise of effective software support for resolving complex disputes coming under certain categorized areas. SoftSettle Support avoids human intervention to an extent to conduct the dispute resolution procedure and activities on their own. At the same time other significant issue taken into consideration while designing these devices is about the role of human dispute resolution agent or expert neutral in the online resolution system and the job better to be left over to automated (software) solutions. The execution of the justice has entered a revolutionized phase.

The access to justice has become very easy, fast, fair and efficient with the introduction of Artificial intelligence in the area of dispute resolution and www.softsettle.com has been organized with more stability and consistency so as to counter certain challenges likely to be posed by the conflicting situations in different areas.

Hence the lawyers are invited to test the automation in respect of accessing the justice straight forwardly and effortlessly. Realising the fact that litigation is adversarial, which means less regard to fair solution, court decisions might not be acceptable to either party and further adjudication of court results in win-lose scenario and not a mutually acceptable decision, it is time for the lawyers to ponder over a new means for accessing fast and fair justice.  Let the hope rests with the new beginning in the area of justice ignited with the help of artificial intelligence being promoted by SoftSettle Support.

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Internet connectivity facilitates the communication from any place in the globe. It further makes easy to exchange of offers and counteroffers while simultaneously managing confidential information at a neutral site. As such, the parties’ decisions are based on certain information that brings the interests and positions of the parties. The parties could reach an amenable settlement where nobody is losing anything

Soft Settle is the multiparty e-Resolution System that reduces time, cost, and stress for decision-makers in all types of cases. Soft Settle’s Internet network connects parties located anywhere in the world by means of a neutral server that manages private information and keeps it confidential and secure. Using powerful fair and fast algorithms, Softsettle can quickly transform conflicting objectives into fair and efficient solutions.

Soft Settle can be viable platform where decision makers could rather be supported to deal with any type of matters irrespective whether they are complex or simple.
Soft Settle’s products are designed to be able to help with any conflict, no matter how big or small..

The software SS-Equity is powered by sophisticated optimization algorithms at a neutral site that securely manages confidential data without human intervention. SS-Equity quickly becomes the eventual unbiased virtual arbitrator or mediator Suggestions made by SS-Equity are completely unbiased and impartial, based only on information that parties provide. Parties can do everything by themselves without any help or assistance from the part of any lawyers or authorized experts and hence they could control the process by themselves.
The best time to choose SS-Equity is at the beginning and the middle level (termed to be early and middle level interventions) in certain conflict segments, could rather help the affected party from all the drastic consequences he is supposed to undergo. Litigation is adversarial, which means less regard to fair solution. Court decisions might not acceptable to either party, result in disturbance of commercial relationship.
SS-Equity integrated in Soft Settle is a tool that can work for peace and harmony ultimately leads to a harmonious bondage between or among the parties. Everybody is invited and they can experience the vibrant process as an eye witness.

Soft Settle provides invisible and secure neutral site server on the Internet that Soft Settle employs to keep party’s choice of interest and their respective position confidential and thus pursue the effort for attaining fast, fair, efficient and cost effective attributes.

The 24×4, round the clock discharge of services and the convenience of synchronous and asynchronous feature the scheduling of the parties’ participation in the process more facilitative so that the resolution process can be structured with each sessions consisting of three attempts. The recurring attempts would provide the parties more opportunities and confidence and their anticipation of result might never go betrayed.

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COURT LITIGATION
Litigation is very costly and expensive. Every citizen has the right to seek satisfaction for his or her grievances in the courts. The problem is paying the bills. A trial of a complex business case normally takes months; some have gone far for more than a year.

Examples of the fees and expenses required to pay are lawyers’ fees, expert witnesses’ fees and others associated fees. Notably, the pre-action stage of proceedings can often be a very time-consuming and an enormously costly exercise. In addition, the uncertainty of the period of time that a trial might use will raise the expenses and fees time to time.

Other disadvantage of litigation is it is more benefit to wealthier party. Litigation is not a process of solving problems, but a process of winning arguments. Wealthier party is enable and affordable to hire an experienced and good lawyer to engage in the lawsuit. Judge and jury can be easily convinced by a good lawyer whom has strong convincing skill.

Litigation is adversarial, which means less regard to fair solution. Court decisions might not acceptable to either party, result in disturbance of commercial relationship. Adjudication of court results in win-lose scenario and not a mutually acceptable decision.
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ADR
Giving adequate attention to important decisions tends to be very time consuming, especially in multiparty negotiations, mediations in its traditional form. Not all forms of ADR are quick, in fact some forms of ADR require a client to pass through many stages before adjudication.
ADR is not always cheap, and can be as expensive as court action. Drawn-out negotiations involving professionals can be very expensive, both in time as the process used to creep and crawl and unutilized negotiation energy.

TECHNOLOGY
In recent years, the legal sector has seen the introduction of numerous software designed to make legal work more efficient. In some cases, the software is able to automatically analyze court and tribunal cases or even produce “better quality” work than that traditionally done by paralegals. On the flip side, this software is also able to reduce legal costs, and work towards closing the justice gap by helping those who aren’t able to afford a lawyer or qualify for legal aid, access appropriate legal resources.

Online dispute resolution was sup¬posed to take over the legal profession. With the rise of the Internet, ar¬tificial intelligence and other clever bits of technology, lawyers would be able to solve legal disputes with computers, not courtrooms and judges.

ODR promotes a virtual scenario to facilitate the mediator or any presiding officer interacting with the disputing parties. By formulating a technology stimulated ambience, ODR has cleared a way for bringing justice most transparently and thus winning the trust of the people.

The approach to justice will become easier and quick with the aid of technology supported ODR. A key advantage of resolving disputes through the use of cyber-resolution is that it avoids the issue of whether a particular court has jurisdiction over the dispute. Since disputants can bind themselves to resolution through an agreement, jurisdictional issues can be avoided altogether.

The claim of saving court litigation expenses used to be the primary advantage of the traditional dispute resolution. The business segments all around the world is experiencing a tough time as the result of the recession prevailing and dominating in all countries. It has become indispensable for even ordinary individuals to stabilize their financial position at this juncture. Hence to a great extent Online Dispute Resolution has become a blessing to the society so far as this method can be adopted to make the resolution process most cost effective. The online resolution mechanisms eliminate the need for physical travel which used to be long and tedious one to reach particular forum to participate in the alternative dispute resolution process. This level of convenience obviously saves both money and time.

ACCESS TO JUSTICE USING SOFT SETTLE
Considering the technical inputs to simplify the process to accessing to justice, SoftSettle Support has built a platform Soft Settle where technology can interact with disputes with fast and fair criteria being integrated for an efficient mode of case management so as to reduce the cost and bring justice to the parties without any complications, hassles and leaving no room for tensions or stress for the parties what they are forced to experience during the court litigation and ADR

The digital platform Soft Settle helps people deal comprehensively with their legal problem and encourages a mediated settlement rather than recourse to lawyers and courts. Agreements reached through collaboration and respective generous interests of the parties tend to more effective and proposes a harmonious bondage paving way for an accurate judicial reasoning and in every ways rather efficient than decision imposed by judges.

Technology must be utilized to better assist Indians and other Asians get fair and proper access to justice.

Soft Settle is on the mission to make the law accessible – with the Artificial Intelligence igniting the fire hence calls for technological legal tools. Soft Settle revolutionizes the legal assistance technology that suits the needs of ordinary people – and that extends to low-income and disadvantaged Indians and Asians.

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Artificial intelligence is changing the way lawyers think, the way they do business and the way they interact with clients. Artificial intelligence is more than legal technology. It is the next great hope that will revolutionize the legal profession.

Change can be brought on through pushing existing ideas. What makes artificial intelligence stand out is the potential for a paradigm shift in how legal work is done.

AI, sometimes referred to as cognitive computing, refers to computers learning how to complete tasks traditionally done by humans. The focus is on computers looking for patterns in data, carrying out tests to evaluate the data and finding results.

Soft Settle first time in India, and among in other Asian countries has shown the mettle to disclose how Artificial Intelligence combining with Digital Technology can eliminate lengthy, expensive lawyered-up court litigations; the technology is already adapted to reshape and revamp the justice patterns, by making its presence felt in the issues relating to debt, insurance, consumer matter and other different forms of civil and corporate disagreements.

Indians and other Asians are in the process of embracing digital technology – using it for their shopping, communicating, house hunting, work and leisure activities etc.. Simultaneously, it is to borne in mind, the digital revolution can prevent costly and lengthy court action – so it would benefit our justice system and out society as a whole. Hence the digital sparkling would have to reshape the Indian and Asian societies ultimately would offer the opportunity to address fundamental problems in our present legal system – combating the legal menaces like expensive lawyers and slow, confrontational and painful court proceedings.

The digital platform Soft Settle helps people deal comprehensively with their legal problem and encourages a mediated settlement rather than recourse to lawyers and courts. Agreements reached through collaboration and respective generous interests of the parties tend to more effective and proposes a harmonious bondage paving way for an accurate judicial reasoning and in every ways rather efficient than decision imposed by judges.

Technology must be utilized to better assist Indians and other Asians get fair and proper access to justice.

Soft Settle is on the mission to make the law accessible – with the Artificial Intelligence igniting the fire hence calls for technological legal tools. Soft Settle revolutionizes the legal assistance technology that suits the needs of ordinary people – and that extends to low-income and disadvantaged Indians and Asians.

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Disputes are virtual certainty in any society. A great percentage of these disputes revolve around money- how much is owed to whom. A vast legal system has been built around resolving monetary disputes, whether it involves a dispute over money owed or a cause of action for damages arising from a commercial or physical injury to a party. Even in the litigious society, most disputes do settle without resort to the courts.

Many disputes settle late in the game, often on the courthouse steps and usually only in an effort to avoid an uncertain outcome in litigation. Of course, by that time, all litigants have spent a significant amount of money in prosecuting or defending the lawsuit. While the courthouse settlement is a meaningful and preferable alternative to a trial, such settlement would be less costly and probably more fair if it had occurred much earlier in the process.

One of the settlement dynamics that impedes the early resolution of many disputes is that the parties find it very difficult to move very far or very fast in their negotiations. Impediments to prompt settlement include posturing, a fear of appearing weak or uncertain, an unrealistic vision or understanding of the other side’s position, or fear of vulnerability. In most cases, the negotiation starts at extreme positions and passes through a number of incremental, snail-like movement before a final settlement number is reached. Removing these impediments can help the parties achieve agreement much more quickly.

Mediators can play a vital role in advancing settlement. The mediator can frequently speed the process by finding out from each party, on a confidential basis, what are that party’s “trigger points’—what does that party expect to get out of the dispute. In addition, the mediator can learn, or at least discern, a party’s “bottom line”. During this information gathering, the mediator may discover that the “bottom lines” are not that far apart. If the parties are far apart at first, skillful wrangling by the mediator can frequently bring the parties within reach of each other. At that point, the parties are much closer together than they would have been had they set out on the traditional negotiation path.

One significant benefit of the mediator is that each party’s conversations and disclosures are maintained in confidence until agreement is close at hand. All of the fears normally associated with face-to-face negotiations dissolve. There is no need for a party to avoid making a big move towards the middle, which carries the risk in personal negotiations of appearing uninformed, weak or desperate. Neither party holds back information or bargaining proposals because the filter of the mediator is always there. Moreover either party can retrench and retract a previous settlement position while preserving the settlement opportunity.

While a mediator is a very valuable asset, not every party to a dispute wants to use a mediator. Most disputes are settled through person-to-person discussions, and most frequently through attorneys. Face-to-face settlement conferences can require significant commitment of time and monetary resources by the parties and their attorneys. Negotiations through mail, or even e-mail, can be slow and ripe for posturing. Both approaches eliminate the safe harbor of confidentiality that allows the participants to freely examine, offer and counteroffer without fear of reprisal or without risk of killing the negotiations.

In recent years, internet based systems have arisen that guide parties through a settlement process. In many of these online settlement systems, each party is entitled to make a limited number of offers/counter offers, usually three, in alternating fashion. The offers or bids are kept secret. If the two offers are within a predetermined range, as calculated by the online system, then many systems “split the difference” and to inform the parties of their settlement amount.

A detriment of these prior systems is that they force the settlement amount to be at the midpoint between offers. This approach limits the flexibility of the settlement system and obligates the participants to “settle the blind” at an unknown amount. Moreover, these prior systems only offer one approach to settlement, again limiting the flexibility of the system to meet differing expectations of the participants. There remains a need for an automated dispute settlement system that retains the security of confidentiality while providing flexible approaches to meet the desires of the participants.

What is desired, therefore, is a system for performing dispute resolution that enables parties to present their issues to a customized decision maker and receive a determination in a short amount of time at a reasonable price. providing such a dispute resolution system that operates over the Internet with Internet with the interaction from Internet users is also desired.