The Camel and the Last Straw or the Frog and the Boiling Water: Pick Your Parable By George H. Friedman* The current issue of the Securities Arbitration Commentator has as its lead story an article I wrote with the title above. For those who don’t subscribe, here is the Reader’s Digest version. Or maybe the…
Ten Things about Litigation that Arbitration Critics Won’t Tell You by George H. Friedman* [republished from an earlier post] The recent uproar over General Mills’ decision to adopt and later retract a new policy by which consumers, by engaging in activities such as downloading a recipe, or participating in a contest, or “liking” the firm…
“Technology and ADR – The Future Is Here” was presented by our VP & General Counsel Mark Norych yesterday as part of Cyberweek 2014 at The Werner Institute of Creighton University School of Law. Click here for more from ADRhub.com. In this fast-paced interactive program, experts and practitioners from Arbitration Resolution Services, Inc., the world’s…
The recent uproar over General Mills’ decision to adopt and later retract a new policy by which consumers, by engaging in activities such as downloading a recipe, or participating in a contest, or “liking” the firm on Facebook, would unwittingly be agreeing to arbitrate, certainly refocused the spotlight on the prevalent use of mandatory, predispute arbitration in consumer transactions.
CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. (October 1, 2014) Arbitration Resolution Services, Inc. (ARS), the world’s first cloud-based Complete Online Dispute Resolution (C-ODR™) provider, today announced the appointment of George Friedman as Chairman of the Board of Directors and Randall Wood as Chief Operating Officer. ARS is a fully-automated legal solution that helps its users operate from their…