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Recent Developments in International Arbitration: English Court Sets Aside Arbitral Awards in Landmark Nigeria Case

In this article series, we look at key arbitration related decisions from the past year and draw out the key lessons for users of arbitration. Arbitral awards are rarely set aside by national courts but the 2023 English...more

Proskauer - Minding Your Business

Federal Court Upholds Arbitral Award Despite Failures to Disclose Potential Bias

The Eleventh Circuit upheld an arbitral award last month despite the arbitrators’ failure to make certain disclosures regarding potential sources of bias. The litigation involved a dispute between the Panama Canal Authority,...more

NAM (National Arbitration and Mediation)

Party-Appointed Arbitrators On The Precipice

Concerns about bias and prejudice from multiple repeat appointments have plagued party-appointed arbitrators for years. This is true of international arbitration, commercial arbitration and, of course, insurance and...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

New SIAC Rules: The Need For Refinement

Last month, the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) started a review and revision of its 2016 Rules (the “2020 Review”). The 2016 Rules introduced a number of novel provisions to address “early dismissal of...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

ICC issues Practice Note on Three Hot-Topics in International Arbitration: an Arbitrator’s Duty of Disclosure; Transparency in...

• The International Court of Arbitration (the “Court”) of the ICC has published a Note to Parties and Arbitral Tribunals on the conduct of the arbitration under the ICC Rules of Arbitration (the “Note” or the “2019 Note”)...more

White and Williams LLP

Second Circuit Adopts Heightened Standard for Distinguishing Evident Partiality of Party-Appointed Arbitrator

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The Second Circuit recently joined other circuit courts in adopting a different standard for determining the evident partiality of a party-appointed arbitrator than a neutral arbitrator or umpire. In Certain Underwriting...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Regulation, a/k/a Federal Contractor Blacklisting Regulation

On July 31, 2014, without much public attention, President Obama issued a far-reaching Executive Order, No. 13673, which requires bidders on federal contracts to disclose adverse labor law decisions under more than a dozen...more

Stinson LLP

What Federal Contractors Need to Know to Comply With Fair Pay & Safe Workplaces Rule

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On August 25, 2016, the federal government implemented Executive Order 13673, first put forth by the Obama Administration in 2014.Officially known as the Fair Pay & Safe Workplaces rule, and more commonly referred to as the...more

Littler

Taking a Closer Look at the New Federal Contractor "Blacklisting" Obligations

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On August 25, 2016, the Federal Acquisition Regulatory (FAR) Council published in the Federal Register its highly anticipated Final Rule regarding the so-called "blacklisting" procedures for federal contractors President...more

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Alabama Supreme Court Reverses Arbitration Award Where Arbiter Failed To Make Required Disclosures

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In a case involving a dispute between a not-for-profit corporation administering a self-insured group workers’ compensation fund and their investment advisor and broker-dealer, the Supreme Court of Alabama granted the fund’s...more

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