Harshitha Ram with her husband Senthil Jayavelu, son Ashrith Senthil, and daughter Apeksha Senthil.
Harshitha Ram, chair of the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Section of the Detroit Bar Association (DBA), has been honored with the DBA’s prestigious Legal Scholar Award for 2025.
The award was presented at the DBA’s annual dinner held recently at the Detroit Golf Club.
This year’s accolade—Ram’s third in a row—recognizes her groundbreaking paper, “Optimizing Civil Court Dockets Through Innovative Dispute Resolution Practices,” which is currently available on the DBA website.
Courts across the United States are wrestling with a perfect storm: pandemic era backlogs, shrinking budgets, and a surge in complex, high stakes litigation. Ram’s paper is already being hailed by colleagues as “top of its class” for directly addressing those pain points with tested, data driven remedies. Drawing on nationwide pilot programs, analytics from high volume jurisdictions, and best practices refined in her own arbitration and mediation work, the paper lays out: Early Case Triage Protocols; Hybrid ADR Models; Technology Enabled Docket Management Tools; Metric Driven Benchmarks, among others.
“This paper offers a roadmap of practical, replicable solutions that courts can deploy today—solutions we know work because they’ve already been tested in multiple jurisdictions,” Ram said.
In addition to serving as DBA ADR Section chair, Ram is the incoming co-chair of the American Bar Association’s Arbitration Committee and president of the Global Arbitration Mediation Academy (GAMA), which focuses on providing world-class ADR education and training across borders.
Harshitha Ram is an internationally recognized arbitrator and mediator, with experience in both U.S. domestic and international forums. To learn more, visit www.HarshithaRam.com.
The award was presented at the DBA’s annual dinner held recently at the Detroit Golf Club.
This year’s accolade—Ram’s third in a row—recognizes her groundbreaking paper, “Optimizing Civil Court Dockets Through Innovative Dispute Resolution Practices,” which is currently available on the DBA website.
Courts across the United States are wrestling with a perfect storm: pandemic era backlogs, shrinking budgets, and a surge in complex, high stakes litigation. Ram’s paper is already being hailed by colleagues as “top of its class” for directly addressing those pain points with tested, data driven remedies. Drawing on nationwide pilot programs, analytics from high volume jurisdictions, and best practices refined in her own arbitration and mediation work, the paper lays out: Early Case Triage Protocols; Hybrid ADR Models; Technology Enabled Docket Management Tools; Metric Driven Benchmarks, among others.
“This paper offers a roadmap of practical, replicable solutions that courts can deploy today—solutions we know work because they’ve already been tested in multiple jurisdictions,” Ram said.
In addition to serving as DBA ADR Section chair, Ram is the incoming co-chair of the American Bar Association’s Arbitration Committee and president of the Global Arbitration Mediation Academy (GAMA), which focuses on providing world-class ADR education and training across borders.
Harshitha Ram is an internationally recognized arbitrator and mediator, with experience in both U.S. domestic and international forums. To learn more, visit www.HarshithaRam.com.
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