Employers in California often present new employees with an arbitration agreement, usually at onboarding. Employers often — or at least they should — take great care when drafting arbitration ...

California's Senate Bill 940 (SB 940), which was signed into law at the end of 2024 and introduces new requirements for arbitration agreements ...

Earlier this week, Disney backed down from its claim that a man whose wife died at Disney World could not take the company to court because he had signed away his right to sue when he signed up for a ...

I explore how the lack of clear expectations on how the arbitration would proceed impacts an arbitrator’s continuing obligation to disclose relationships and consequences if they fail to do so.

Opinion: Defense counsel have two paths to compel claims brought against nonsignatory senior employees to arbitration.

Arbitration clauses tell franchisees how their franchisors will treat them during a dispute, said Caroline Fichter, a partner at Bundy & Fichter law firm in Seattle. “If you read through it and it ...

A former car dealership employee argued that a blurry and small-print arbitration agreement document provided by her employer ...

California Supreme Court justices considered Tuesday whether a car dealership’s hard-to-read arbitration agreement rises to the level of being unconscionable and unenforceable.

The U.S. Postal Service and the union representing its members could not come to an agreement on the agency’s newest contract for federal workers, and the next step is arbitration in court. The ...

An Oklahoma attorney wants to send out a warning to people looking into placing a loved one in a nursing home. Mark Cox is an attorney in Oklahoma City. He takes on nursing ...