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Shielding Against the Mass Arbitration Surge: Strategies to Mitigate Risk

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Mass arbitration is posing significant challenges for businesses, as it creates a new battleground in dispute resolution with the potential to overwhelm companies with a flood of simultaneous claims. Consumer-facing companies...more

Epstein Becker & Green

Making the Lawyer-Client Relationship Work in Challenging Litigation – Speaking of Litigation Video Podcast

Sometimes, challenging clients need to be challenged. Whether encouraging candid client conversations or reining clients in during depositions, it’s important to keep the ultimate goal in mind: success. In this episode of...more

Law School Toolbox

Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 226: Listen and Learn -- More Contract Defenses

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Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! This episode is part two in contract defenses. In part one, we focused on the defenses of mistake, fraudulent misrepresentation, and non-disclosure. Today, we cover three more:...more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

Affirmatively Plead Your Defenses, or Risk “Waiving” Them Goodbye

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Many litigants are familiar with the well-settled rule that an affirmative defense will be waived if it is not included in a CPLR 3211(a) motion to dismiss or in the answer (see CPLR 3211[e]).   And so, lawyers tasked with...more

Payne & Fears

Nonparty Discovery in California Arbitration: How to Get What You Want

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Opting for arbitration requires attorneys to balance efficiency and procedural protections. The implications of arbitration are something clients certainly have to carefully consider both when drafting arbitration provisions,...more

Jackson Walker

Handling Your First (Or Next) Oil And Gas Case: Who Is The Client? Operative Documents, Necessary Parties, And Knowing Your Limits

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As part of TexasBarCLE’s “Handling Your First (or Next)” series, Jackson Walker partner Amy Osberg Roberts presented a discussion on “Who Is the Client? Operative Documents, Necessary Parties, and Knowing Your Limits” in oil...more

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