Most investors do not understand the difference between two types of financial advisors who they often rely on for investment...
By Brittany Munn
There has been a lot of recent legislative action aimed at reining in forced arbitration clauses in consumer and employee...
By Brittany Munn, Colin Rule
Just a few weeks ago, on March 3, 2022, President Joe Biden signed into law a bill that amends the...
By Brittany Munn, Colin Rule
President Biden on March 3 signed into law the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act. It became effective...
By George Friedman
This article first appeared on Engage Blog by Hogan Lovells, here. President Biden is expected to sign into law legislation...
By Ches Garrison
In 1925, the Federal Arbitration Act (“FAA”) was enacted to ensure the validity and enforcement of arbitration agreements due to...
By Brittany Munn
This article was originally published in the ARIAS·U.S. Quarterly, Q3, 2021 and is republished here with permission. A. Overview The...
By Edward Lenci
Another Circuit Court Holds That the New York Convention Pre-empts State Laws Prohibiting Arbitration of Insurance Disputes On August 12,...
By Edward Lenci
This article first appeared on the Employment Class Action Blog, here. A U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit...
By John Lewis
This article first appeared in Urbas Arbitral, here. In Malcolm Drilling Company Inc. v. The Graham-Aecon Joint Venture, 2021 BCSC 1136,...
By Daniel Urbas
This article first appeared on Securities Arbitration Alert (SAA), here. This is less a letter from the editor and more...
By George Friedman
This article first appeared on the Financial Institutions Law Alert, here. Congressional rumblings about outlawing mandatory arbitration clauses are relatively...
By Joseph Calabrese
This article first appeared on Ogletree Deakins insights, here. Mandatory arbitration clauses for employment disputes have received a great deal...
By Rachel Mandel, Laurielle Howe
This article first appeared on the Securities Arbitration Alert (SAA) Blog, here. The recently-introduced Forced Arbitration Injustice Repeal (FAIR) Act has been...
By George Friedman