Bridget McCormack

And the counties across Michigan are are differently resourced.

Right.

So some counties have, you know, a larger tax base than others.

And they that they have a bigger budget to work with.

Right.

So convincing separately elected judges with different budgets that we're going to do business a certain way going forward is super complicated.

It's a very fun change management problem.

The AAA, on the other hand, it's basically a court system, but a private court system, although I should say at the top, the AAA is a

a non-profit.

We're a fee-for-service non-profit, but we're a non-profit.

But we've been administering alternative discrete resolution arbitration, but also mediation and any other alternative process parties want for 100 years as of last Thursday.

So we've been doing it for a

over half a million cases a year for the last few years, and not just domestically, but also cross-border disputes.

So most of them are B2B commercial disputes, but there are also B2C cases, employment consumer cases.

and a growing number of self-represented parties.

A lot of small and medium businesses, as I'm sure you know, can't afford legal help.

They're legally naked.

And so arbitration is an easier way for them to manage disputes.

I would say the administrative part of the job was –

significantly more than half than the decisional part of the job.