Fred Bauder wrote:

One of the things which would greatly improve functioning and retention of arbitrators is effective advocates who would select and present evidence which illustrated the contentions of the parties. As it is now the arbitrators themselves are forced to view the ridiculous amounts of irrelevant crap which the parties advance as "evidence" and try to figure out on their own what is going on.

The catch is of course that concise, coherent, joined-up thinking is often the problem editors' precise weak point ...

- d.