As litigation costs continue to explode, more and more businesses have been including arbitration clauses in contracts with employees and customers. These clauses, which frequently include class ...

The First District Appellate Court in Illinois affirmed the trial court's denial of a defendant law firm's motion to compel arbitration on the basis that the arbitration provision in the ...

We have learned that President George Washington’s last will and testament contained an arbitration provision and thorough discussion about how the arbitrators were to be selected and their roles. The ...

On Thursday, Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) and Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) re-introduced the Forced Arbitration Injustice Repeal Act (FAIR) Act, a measure that would ban forced arbitration clauses ...

Valve Corporation, tired of paying arbitration fees, has removed a mandatory arbitration clause from Steam’s subscriber agreement. Valve told gamers in yesterday’s update that they must sue the ...

Driven both by insurer-drafted policy language and sophisticated commercial parties' appetite for potentially streamlined ...

The mandatory arbitration clauses that 61% of the nation’s 15,000 registered investment advisor firms require clients to sign benefit advisors over investors, SEC staff said in a new report sent to ...

Since I became a lawyer in 1989, the use of arbitration as a dispute resolution technique has skyrocketed, and it is increasingly rare these days to find a contract that does not have an arbitration ...

LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) — A win for homeowners suing D.R. Horton homes who said they were duped into signing arbitration clauses before moving into their defective homes. Although some had signed the ...