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→‎The basic arbitration process

Once the relevant documents have been exchanged and any expert opinions have been completed, each party will start to work on how they're going to present their case to the arbitrator and on the documents they'll want to refer the arbitrator to at the hearing. These might include:

#*written arguments;,#*timelines, charts, financial tables, photographs, videos, and other visual aids;,#*summaries of what your witnesses are going to say, called ''will-say statements'';,#*affidavits and financial statements;,#*binders with the financial and other documents you're going to be asking your witnesses to identify, comment on, or explain, called ''books of documents''; , and,#*binders with the case law you're going to be asking the arbitrator to consider, called ''books of authorities''.

Sometimes the arbitrator will want the parties to cooperate and prepare other hearing documents together. These might include:

#*''statements of agreed facts'', a written summary of the facts both parties agree about; , and,#*''joint books of documents'', binders with the financial and other documents you will both rely on.

Next, the parties and their lawyers, if they have them, will attend the hearing. Arbitration hearings can take place in the arbitrator's office, a boardroom in a hotel or anywhere else that's private, or even remotely by videoconference, and are usually less formal than court hearings; arbitration processes can be as formal or informal as the parties and the arbitrator want.

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