Some employers concerned about the risks and expenses that accompany employment litigation instead require their workers to agree to mandatory arbitration of employment claims. Last week, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals (which includes North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia) broadened the applicability of such agreements, upholding an arbitration clause that prevents appellate judicial review of the arbitrator’s decision.
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In this round of Arbitration Tips-N-Tools, Professor Amy Schmitz asks some of the leading arbitration practitioners about maintaining privacy and safety in online arbitration (OArb), especially in a digital world...
By DeAndra Roaché, Theo Cheng, Daniel Urbas, George Friedman, Amy SchmitzThis article was first published in the Arbitration Matters Blog, here. In Wang v. Luo, 2022 ONSC 5544, Justice LeMay, sitting as an Ontario Divisional Court judge, upheld the enforcement of...
By James PlotkinA Colorado appellate court recently held that arbitrators do not have the inherent power to sanction an attorney personally for misconduct. See Herrera v. Santangelo Law Offices, P.C., No. 20CA2105,...
By Imre Szalai
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