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Recent decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court in Smith v. Spizzirri, 601 U.S. 472 (2024) and Coinbase, Inc. v. Suski, 144 S. Ct. 1186 (2024) provide important guidance for companies utilizing arbitration clauses in their...more
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On January 15, 2024, the American Arbitration Association ("AAA") published updates to its Mass Arbitration Supplementary Rules and Fee Schedule, aimed at streamlining the mass arbitration process and reducing costs....more
This presentation will review best practices for ensuring agreement to arbitration clauses, drafting arbitration clauses, the plaintiff bar's ongoing efforts to invalidate the clauses and how best to craft a clause that is...more
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Peter Morton and Tim Fox of K&L Gates discuss the practical implications of recent English case law on the question of which law will govern agreements to arbitrate, including for those drafting an arbitration clause in a...more
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In this episode of Digging Into Land Use Law, Nossaman Real Estate Group Co-Chair David Graeler and associate Maya Hamouie discuss myriad problems that may arise when a market rent adjustment provision in a long-term ground...more
Laura Abrahamson, Esq., FCIArb, is featured in a CCBJ Perspectives podcast discussing how her career as in-house counsel informs her approach to ADR - In fall of 2020, Laura Abrahamson, Esq., FCIArb, transitioned from her...more
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