FedArb, one of the country’s leading ADR providers, announced today that it has revised and updated its arbitration rules to reflect best practices and critical success factors from hundreds of its own managed arbitrations and “best of” content from law conferences, professional associations and other arbitration groups. “FedArb continues to listen closely to our clients... Read more »
“Find me an expert who lacks expertise.” While this may sound like an oxymoron, it is not an uncommon request when a law firm seeks a former federal judge to serve on a mock panel. The reason: the underlying adjudicator has limited familiarity with the subject matter governing the dispute so the former judge should... Read more »
Contrary to the media bashing arbitration of employment disputes, a recent Chamber of Commerce study finds it is employees--not the companies--that benefit from arbitration. Specifically: when cases proceeded to adjudication, plaintiffs, who almost always were employees, were more likely to prevail in arbitration than in litigation. During 2014- 18, in decided cases, employee-plaintiffs prevailed in... Read more »
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