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Where a party needs immediate legal relief, emergency arbitration can often provide it.   I will first discuss the emergency arbitration process, particularly its historic roots and what the process constitutes in the context of the AAA Commercial Rules, and then describe an actual emergency arbitration I handled this past summer for the ICDR in an international IP dispute. Generally speaking, a disputant often requires immediate ("interim") relief whenever its counter-disputant unilaterally …

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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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