Arbitration and ADR: The National Law Review Page 7

For the latest news, stories, and information on alternative dispute resolution (ADR), arbitration meetings, and court-ordered mediation between parties, the National Law Review provides readers with a source of information online. Biding adversarial proceedings and non-binding voluntary procedures, which are heard in front of a neutral third party, are discussed under the National Law Review’s ADR coverage, and rules and regulations pertaining to this source of conflict resolution are analyzed by the team of legal experts at the National Law Review.

Coverage includes the examination of different arbitration agreement rulings, at the federal and state level. Arbitration agreements, both in employment and otherwise, and arbitrator awards, in cases relating to business organizations and disputes, are also covered on the site. Arbitration related to sexual harassment lawsuits in the workplace are extremely common today; readers can learn about binding and non-binding terms, and how employees can defeat these arbitration clauses when filing a lawsuit against their company or C-level executive in their organization, on the National Law Review site. Compulsory arbitration clauses in agreements relating to major corporations, shareholder agreements, or multinational agreements, are covered on the National Law Review. These agreements, from industries including employment disputes, consumer class action lawsuits, and franchise agreements, are among the different topics, news, and stories, which visitors will read about on the National Law Review website.

Litigation which arises out of binding arbitration agreements in the workplace, clauses which parties can’t agree upon when creating a new contract, or dealings between companies in different jurisdictions which go awry, are among the different topics which the National Law Review covers, in relation to ADR and arbitration law. Visitors will read stories which arise in the United States, across country-borders, and between multinational organizations, when visiting the National Law Review, for coverage on this area of law.

Date	Title	Organization
1 May	“Wholly Groundless” Exception Not Grounded in Federal Arbitration Act	McDermott Will & Emery
1 May	Alternative Dispute Resolution Methods to Resolve Trust Disputes	McDermott Will & Emery
1 May	Supreme Court Rules on Employee Data Breach Class Arbitration Suit	Jackson Lewis P.C.
1 May	Ninth Circuit Affirms Order Compelling Class Arbitration in Employment Dispute Involving Two Employment Agreements With Varying Arbitration Provisions	Carlton Fields
30 Apr	U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Individualized Arbitration Where Agreement Is Ambiguous on Issue of Class Arbitration	Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
29 Apr	Court Finds Jurisdiction Over Petition to Confirm Arbitration Award in Dispute Between Liquidator and Foreign Reinsurer	Carlton Fields
29 Apr	Employers May Compel Arbitration Even Where Employee Failed to Sign Arbitration Agreement	Ballard Spahr LLP
29 Apr	How Does the Latest US Supreme Court Ruling on Class Arbitration Affect Reinsurance Arbitration?	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
29 Apr	How Courts Select Umpires Where The Reinsurance Contract Gives Courts the Power	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
26 Apr	SCOTUS Today: Class Action Ambiguity Finds No Shelter Under the Federal Arbitration Act	Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
26 Apr	The Consolidation Circus Continues	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
26 Apr	Supreme Court Gives Employers Another Tool to Fend Off Class Actions	Faegre Drinker
25 Apr	“Interim Measures” in Arbitration: Requiring Pre-Hearing Security for Payment of an Eventual Final Award	Mintz
25 Apr	United States Supreme Court Says Courts Cannot Compel Classwide Arbitration Absent Affirmative Contractual Agreement	Proskauer Rose LLP
25 Apr	Lights Out on Classwide Arbitration: The Supreme Court Rules in Lamps Plus That Ambiguity in Agreements Is Not Enough to Permit Classwide Arbitration	Carlton Fields
25 Apr	SCOTUS Deals Another Blow to Classwide Arbitration	Schiff Hardin LLP
25 Apr	US Supreme Court Rules That Agreement to Class-Based Arbitration Procedures Must Be Explicit	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
24 Apr	U.S. Supreme Court Illuminates Class Arbitration and FAA Appeal Issues	Ballard Spahr LLP
24 Apr	Consent, Not Coercion: Supreme Court Rejects Contractual Ambiguity as a Basis for Class Arbitration	Faegre Drinker
24 Apr	Ninth Circuit Finds No Foreign Arbitration Award to Uphold	Carlton Fields
24 Apr	Supreme Court Doubles Down on Enforceability of Class Arbitration Waivers	Jones Walker LLP
24 Apr	New York Federal Court Rejects Attempt to Vacate Arbitration Award Related to Theft of Corporate Assets	Carlton Fields
24 Apr	U.S. Supreme Court: Employment Class Arbitration Waiver Must Be Expressly Addressed in Contract	Jackson Lewis P.C.
24 Apr	Lamps Plus, Inc. v. Varela: Class Arbitration Must Be Expressly Authorized	Pierce Atwood LLP
23 Apr	Broader Is Better: Court Holds Arbitration Agreement Targeted To Medical Malpractice Lawsuits Is Ambiguous As Applied To TCPA Claims.	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
23 Apr	California Federal Court Enforces Arbitration Provision in Uber Agreements	Carlton Fields
22 Apr	Arbitrator Found Not to Have Issued a Reasoned Award, SDNY Remands to Arbitrator for Clarification	Carlton Fields
19 Apr	Fourth Circuit Holds That Arbitrator Exceeded Powers	Carlton Fields
18 Apr	Employee Must Arbitrate Employment Dispute Once Employer Declares that Continued Employment Manifests Assent to Arbitration Policy	Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP
18 Apr	S.D.N.Y. Vacates Amended Arbitration Award, Confirms Original $39 Million Award, Finding Panel Exceeded Authority and Manifestly Disregarded Law	Carlton Fields
18 Apr	Connecticut Superior Court Holds That Consolidation Is a Procedural Question to Be Considered by an Arbitrator	Carlton Fields
18 Apr	U.S. Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Independent Contractors/Owner Operators	Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP
11 Apr	Liquidator’s Motion to Dismiss Petition to Confirm Reinsurance Arbitration Award Denied	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
8 Apr	Discovery Under Section 1782 Denied Based on Finding That Chinese Arbitration Organization Was Not a “Foreign or International Tribunal”	Carlton Fields
8 Apr	What is a “Reasoned” Arbitration Award?	Mintz
3 Apr	“Partial Final” Does Not Mean Final	Carlton Fields
2 Apr	Court Rejects Attempt to Relitigate Arbitration Award	Carlton Fields
1 Apr	Justice Department Obtains Its Largest Ever Settlement Against A Property Management Company for Alleged Violations of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act	Ballard Spahr LLP
1 Apr	NLRB Judge: Requiring Confidential Arbitration is an Unfair Labor Practice	Polsinelli PC
28 Mar	Did New Jersey Just Try to Ban Employment Arbitration Agreements?	Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
28 Mar	Court Of Chancery Finds No Buyer Duty To Maximize Contingent Sale Consideration Owed To Seller	K&L Gates
27 Mar	Here We Go Again? NLRB ALJ Invalidates Part Of Pfizer’s Mandatory Arbitration Pact	Barnes & Thornburg LLP
27 Mar	New Kentucky Law: Employers May Make Arbitration Mandatory as Condition of Employment or Continued Employment	Jackson Lewis P.C.
27 Mar	District Court Declines to Decide Procedural Arbitrability Issue, Separately Seals Docket, Finding “Reasonably Significant Privacy Interest” in Reinsurance Treaties	Carlton Fields
26 Mar	Ninth Circuit Dismisses Interlocutory Appeal, Finds Order Compelling Arbitration Not a “Final Decision” Under FAA	Carlton Fields
21 Mar	English Court Enjoins Washington State Court Action in Favor of Arbitration in London	Carlton Fields
21 Mar	Discoverability of Third Party Funding Documents in Arbitration – Part II	Mintz
21 Mar	California Legislature Tries Yet Again to Outlaw Arbitration Agreements…	Proskauer Rose LLP
20 Mar	Not So Fast: District Court Rejects TCPA Plaintiff’s Attempt To Opt Out of Arbitration By Filing Suit	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
18 Mar	Private Interest Outweighs Public Interest In Sealing of Arbitration Documents	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP