American Arbitration Association Creates Consumer Arbitration Clause Registration Requirement: A Reaction The guest blog post by the Securities Arbitration Commentator on this topic is thought-provoking. As described by the Commentator, “the American Arbitration Association (‘AAA’) announced on July 10th that its Consumer Arbitration Rules are being amended effective September 1st to require firms to register consumer predispute arbitration agreements…
By the Securities Arbitration Commentator (“SAC”) (This work was originally published in the July 10, 2014 online edition of the Securities Arbitration Alert, and is republished here with some stylistic changes as a guest blog post with the permission of and our thanks to SAC’s founder and president Richard Ryder, whose firm also has…
Anthony Palazzo is an in-house litigation counsel for a private company in Durham, NC and regular contributor to the New Jersey Law Journal. On May 20, Palazzo wrote about the evolution of the lawyers’ place in society and the current effect on arbitration, saying: Perhaps more than any other professionals, attorneys have seen their place…
Last month, the online community (that’s pretty much the whole world, folks) was stunned by a ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union (“EU COJ”), which held individuals had a right to request that Google remove data “that appear to be inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant, or excessive in relation to the purposes for which they were processed and in the light of the time that has elapsed.” The May 13th ruling quickly became known as the “Right to be forgotten” decision. Although the holding does not apply in the United States, and First Amendment issues would very likely dictate a different outcome here, the implications are potentially enormous.
In today’s fast-paced tech world, it’s critical to stay ahead of emerging trends from both product development and transactional administration. In an effort to compare traditional court litigation to increasingly popular methods of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) in technology-related disputes, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) commissioned the International Survey On Dispute Resolution In Technology…