A new corporate arbitration program hosted by what many consider the nation’s top business court violates the U.S. Constitution by holding “secret” judicial proceedings, contends a lawsuit that was filed…
Oct 25, 2011 10:55 PM CDT
A former partner at Irell & Manella who once headed its entertainment practice will have to take her bias claims to arbitration, a California judge has ruled.
Juliette Youngblood had…
Oct 25, 2011 3:14 PM CDT
Updated: Earlier this year, cotton was $2.15 a pound on the wholesale market. Now it’s down 54 percent from that high, to less than $1 a pound for December delivery.
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Oct 25, 2011 12:01 AM CDT
A Dutch entrepreneur with a cutting-edge divorce mediation concept says he is ready to launch it in the United States.
Divorce Hotel—which is currently only available in…
Oct 20, 2011 9:00 PM CDT
Glenn Hendrix has been in Pakistan training lawyers in ADR. A shoeless Hendrix is pictured here in May outside of Mazar-e-Quaid, the tomb of Pakistan’s founder, Muhammad Ali Jinnah. All visitors to the grounds are required to remove their shoes. Photo courtesy of Glenn Hendrix.
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A nuisance provision contained in many condominium association governing documents can be a tempting basis for litigation.
But it backfired for one Florida condominium association that tried to utilize it…
Sep 30, 2011 12:56 PM CDT
The growing financial crisis facing state court systems has coincided with the economic doldrums that have existed in the United States since at least 2008. But at least one expert…
Sep 23, 2011 10:46 PM CDT
It looks like the joke could be on Toyota Motor Sales USA Inc., concerning an unusual Internet advertising campaign the automaker developed with Saatchi & Saatchi North America Inc. to…
Sep 12, 2011 11:19 PM CDT
Victorious a few months ago before the U.S. Supreme Court in a case that held customers were required by their phone contracts to arbitrate claims rather than sue, AT&T is…
Aug 17, 2011 7:03 PM CDT
Arguably looking for trouble, the father of a New York teen who got an 11-year prison term last month for shooting a classmate in the arm recently rang the doorbell…
Aug 10, 2011 9:21 PM CDT
After a bitter divorce, Newman Trowbridge Jr. presumably didn’t intend to retain his ex-wife as his beneficiary on his Individual Retirement Account.
But when he died unexpectedly in 2009, the…
Aug 2, 2011 10:34 PM CDT
Updated: A U.S. Supreme Court ruling that initially seemed like a clear win for AT&T Inc., requiring consumers to arbitrate their claims individually rather than bring a class action over…
Jul 28, 2011 12:04 AM CDT
Current and former partners of Lytal Reiter are battling for big bucks after the split of the South Florida law firm last year.
Those who stayed say they are entitled…
Jul 13, 2011 6:10 PM CDT
A Texas appeals court has overturned an arbitrator’s $22 million award because of his social contacts with the Fish & Richardson lawyer whose client won the case.
The court said…
Jun 30, 2011 1:25 PM CDT
Actor Charlie Sheen may have to arbitrate his $100 million contract dispute with Warner Bros. Television over being axed as the star of Two and a Half Men, a Los…
Jun 15, 2011 9:19 PM CDT