A significant number of employers are opting to elect mandatory arbitration of potential disputes with employees as an alternative to state or federal courts. In some circumstances, arbitration can be ...

Closely-held business owners often hope to avoid the costs and delays of litigation by including arbitration provisions in their partnership, shareholder, and operating agreements. Things can get ...

Arbitration agreements are considered contracts, and state law generally governs whether an enforceable contract exists, the 11th Circuit pointed out. Under Florida law, the party seeking enforcement ...

Employers generally don’t have to countersign an arbitration agreement for it to be enforceable under Texas law, absent any explicit language in the agreement requiring the signature, the 5th U.S.

August 15, 2022 - The past decade has seen a variety of hot topics emerge in the labor and employment law field. This includes independent contractor classification, state and local paid sick leave ...

Since the implementation of mandatory buyer broker agreements via the business practice changes outlined in the National Association of Realtors’ (NAR) commission lawsuit settlement agreement, many ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau proposed a rule Wednesday to rein in arbitration clauses in a second attempt to block companies from limiting consumers' legal rights or their ability to sue ...

Presiding Judge Stephen Dillard wrote that Emory Healthcare's practice of presenting patients with admissions forms including an "ostensibly indefinite arbitration agreements" cannot bind those who ...

Experts discussed the differing approaches of France, England and Singapore to issues in arbitration, why this difference in approaches matters. What law should govern an arbitration clause? What law ...