The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that parties to an arbitration agreement may not agree to broader court review than allowed by federal law, SCOTUSblog reports.
Kirkland & Ellis was recently named American Lawyer’s “Litigation Department of the Year” for its courtroom victories, but the law firm would prefer that its associates keep…
A video game publisher has won a $13.2 million arbitration award against the owner of Bratz dolls, a development that could signal the potential for high-stakes litigation involving the video…
Apparently weary of seeing clients defect to to low-cost companies in India and elsewhere when it came time to perform so-called legal process work, at least one major U.S. law…
A Kansas lawyer traveled to Jordan for three months to help teach alternative dispute resolution through the American Bar Association’s Rule of Law Initiative.
Once upon a time, when borrowers couldn’t pay their mortgages, the banks who loaned money to them foreclosed. But today, faced with record-breaking foreclosure rates and a housing market in…
The lawyer for a TV judge “seemed stunned and weary” after a tough U.S. Supreme Court argument yesterday, his seventh appearance before the court, Legal Times reports.
A man who had both his legs amputated below the knee when he was a small child can’t compete as a sprinter in the 2008 Olympics because the prosthetic limbs…
The case of the TV judge billed as “tall, dark and judgmental” heads to the U.S. Supreme Court today for a ruling on whether his dispute with a former manager…
A kinder, gentler method of getting divorced has won fans among both clients and counsel. But it has yet to win over some traditionalists, who wonder, for instance, why collaborative…
Companies see little downside when they write an unfair arbitration agreement covering employment disputes, a plaintiffs employment lawyer told the Wall Street Journal (sub. req.).
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