In-house attorneys tend to confront questions about arbitration at two discrete junctures: during the contract-ing process and at the onset of a dispute. A company is best served when its in-house counsel plays a proactive role at these and at every other stage of the process. During the contracting process, the in-house attorney often needs to address so many mixed business and legal questions that the dispute resolution clause sometimes gets very little attention. …
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Proposed Legislation Undermines Business to Business Arbitration
Last November, The New York Times ran three front-page articles and a follow-up editorial excoriating companies who force their customers and employees to waive their right to proceed in court and instead have their disputes decided in arbitration proceedings where the deck is stacked against them. The articles brought to light that in certain cases the arbitrators who issued final and binding deci-sions had financial ties to those businesses and, as such, were anything but neutral—something …