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INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATOR CEDRIC CHAO JOINS FEDARB

FedArb is proud to announce that Cedric Chao has joined its panel. He will be based in Northern California and serve as an arbitrator, mediator and special master. Prior to joining FedArb, Mr. Chao served as the U.S. head of the DLA Piper’s International Arbitration practice and before that, as a partner at Morrison &... Read more »

FORMER ARIZONA SUPREME COURT JUSTICE SCOTT BALES JOINS FEDARB

FedArb is proud to announce that Hon. Scott Bales (Ret.) has joined its panel. He will be based in Arizona and serve as an arbitrator, mediator and participate in mock trials and internal investigations. He specializes in business/commercial disputes, as well as disputes involving water rights, Tribal rights, and insurance, professional liability and partnership issues.... Read more »

RENOWNED INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATOR CELSO DE AZEVEDO, ESQ. JOINS FEDARB

FedArb is proud to announce that Celso De Azevedo, Esq. has joined its panel. He is based in London and New York and will serve as an arbitrator, mediator and participate in mock trials. He specializes in resolving business/commercial, cyber, energy, insurance/reinsurance, intellectual property, privacy, regulatory and technology disputes. Mr. De Azevedo has extensive experience... Read more »

Growing Trend of Business Interruption Claims Webinar

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TOP NEW ORLEANS ATTORNEY A.J. KROUSE, ESQ. JOINS FEDARB

FedArb is proud to announce that A.J. Krouse, Esq. has joined its panel. He is based in New Orleans and will specialize in resolving disputes related to business/commercial, construction, e-discovery, health care, labor and employment, maritime and mass torts/class actions. He will serve as an arbitrator, mediator, special master and participate in mock trials and... Read more »

FEDARB ANNOUNCES NEW MDL ADVISORY BOARD

FedArb is pleased to announce that it has created an advisory board of some of the leading practitioners involved in multidistrict litigation (MDL). This advisory board will work with leaders in the judiciary, academia and FedArb‘s MDL practitioners to contribute their experience, wisdom and leadership to foster and develop best practices to achieve superior results... Read more »

FedArb Video Mediation Webinar 2

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FORMER U.S. COURT OF APPEALS AND DISTRICT COURT JUDGE TIMOTHY K. LEWIS JOINS FEDARB

FedArb is thrilled to announce that Hon. Timothy K. Lewis (Former) has joined its panel. He will specialize in resolving disputes related to appellate, business/commercial, corporate investigations and employment/labor matters. He will serve as an arbitrator, mediator and participate in mock trials and corporate investigations. Before entering private practice, Judge Lewis served on the U.S.... Read more »

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T-MOBILE/SPRINT MONITORING TRUSTEE TED ULLYOT JOINS FEDARB

FedArb is thrilled to announce that Ted Ullyot has joined its panel. He will specialize in resolving disputes related to antitrust, appellate, monitoring, regulatory compliance and telecommunication matters. Mr. Ullyot has been appointed by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to serve as the monitoring trustee for T-Mobile’s $26 billion merger with... Read more »

FEDARB EXPANDS INTO UK WITH TWO BRITISH NEUTRALS

FedArb is pleased to announce two new international panelists have joined the panel, adding timely and new expertise to the panel. Dean Armstrong QC and Richard Wilson QC bring impressive expertise in a variety of areas and establish a formative presence in the UK. A highly experienced practitioner, Mr. Armstrong has been involved in some... Read more »

FEDARB ESTABLISHES A MASS EMPLOYMENT ARBITRATION FRAMEWORK

Palo Alto, Calif. – FedArb has created a framework for dealing with individual employment claims subject to a common arbitration clause. The framework is ideal for companies using a standard arbitration clause in its employment agreements. It provides individual arbitrations at a fixed price and establishes a panel to deal with issues common to all... Read more »

RETIRED FEDERAL JUDGE CHRISTOPHER F. DRONEY JOINS FEDARB

FedArb is thrilled to announce that Hon. Christopher F. Droney (Ret.) has joined the panel. He will be based in Connecticut and specialize in resolving disputes related to antitrust, class actions, employment/labor, insurance, intellectual property (trademark & copyright), securities/financial services and trade secret matters. He will serve as an arbitrator, mediator, special discovery master and oversee... Read more »

FORMER CPR PRESIDENT NOAH HANFT, ESQ. JOINS FEDARB

FedArb is thrilled to announce that Noah Hanft, Esq. has joined its panel and will be based in New York. He will specialize in resolving antitrust, civil rights, construction, contracts, employment/labor, insurance/reinsurance, intellectual property, real estate and securities disputes. Mr. Hanft is the former president and CEO of the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and... Read more »

RETIRED U.S. DISTRICT JUDGE HON. WILLIAM S. DUFFEY JOINS FEDARB

FedArb is thrilled to announce that Hon. William S. Duffey (Ret.) has joined the panel as arbitrator, mediator and special discovery master and will be based in Atlanta, Ga. He will focus on resolving antitrust, attorney fee/malpractice, banking/lender liability, civil rights, contracts, Corporate investigations/white collar, e-discovery, employment/labor, environmental/CERCLA, insurance/reinsurance, intellectual property (trademark & copyright), MDL,... Read more »

RETIRED FEDERAL CHIEF JUDGE DONALD BLACK JOINS FEDARB

FedArb is thrilled to announce that Hon. Donald Black (Ret.) has joined the panel. He will be based in California and specialize in appellate, attorney fee/malpractice, business/commercial, civil rights, employment/labor, product liability, real estate and securities/financial service disputes. Judge Black served for more than 20 years on the Fresno County Superior Court. He was a... Read more »

RETIRED FEDERAL CHIEF JUDGE RUBEN CASTILLO JOINS FEDARB

FedArb is thrilled to announce that Hon. Ruben Castillo (Ret.) has joined the panel. He will be based in Chicago, New York and Miami. Judge Castillo served as the chief judge of the Northern District of Illinois from 2013 until 2019. He was also the first Latino federal judge in Illinois. He will specialize in... Read more »

FEDARB UPDATES ARBITRATION RULES

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 »

Fairer, Faster, Better: An Empirical Assessment of Employment Arbitration

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 »

Succeeding at Mediation

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Michelle Lee testified before Congress on intellectual property

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FedArb Announces that Lloyd’s Market Association New ADR Provision Requires the Chair to Be a Former Federal Court Judge

January 9, 2019 FedArb, a leading Alternative Dispute Resolution firm based in Palo Alto, announces that Lloyd's has released a Model Arbitration Clause that Provides for Chairperson to be a Retired Federal Court Judge. On December 20th, Lloyd’s Market Association (LMA) published its model arbitration clause (LMA 5344) to its North America Casualty Reinsurance Business... Read more »

M&A Reps & Warranties

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Arbitration of Data Breaches

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