Arbitration offers speed, low cost, and secrecy in diamond disputes. [causal]
In the diamond industry, arbitration has important substantive and procedural advantages over adjudication. It enables parties to resolve disputes and enforce judgments quickly, inexpensively, and secretly, thereby containing damage to reputation and reducing the actual damage suffered by the promisee in event of breach.
Lisa Bernestein, Opting out of the Legal Sys…, loc. 231