In 1925, the Federal Arbitration Act (“FAA”) was enacted to ensure the validity and enforcement of arbitration agreements due to a national policy favoring arbitration as a dispute resolution mechanism. Today, companies are requiring the resolution of disputes through arbitration, rather than judicial proceedings, in an increasing number of both consumer and employment agreements.[1] Section 1 of the FAA provides an exception to mandatory arbitration; the FAA does not apply to “contracts of employment of...
This article first appeared on the Securities Arbitration Alert Blog, here. With Halloween behind us, I thought it might be an interesting break from our usual serious scholarly fare for...
By George Friedman
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In this episode of the Arbitration Conversation Amy interviews Richard Ormond and Jake Stango, the founders of ejudicate.com, an online arbitration service provider (a new ODR start-up) based in Los Angeles, California (learn more at http://ejudicate.com).
The discussion focuses on B2B online arbitration (OArb), describing their process, their reasons for founding the company, and how text-based arbitration can be both fair and efficient.
By Richard Ormond, Jake Stango, Amy Schmitz
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