Dispute Resolution – Easy, Private, Affordable

ARS has a panel of legal industry experts who offer commentary about online arbitration and dispute resolution in this blog. Subscribe to the ARS blog to read the latest news about online dispute resolution and how it can help you to privately resolve conflicts.

Coral Springs Fla., September 25, 2013 – Arbitration Resolution Services, Inc. (ARS) today announces the launch of a proprietary cloud-based service that integrates technology and arbitration for a revolutionary approach to dispute resolution. Headquartered in Coral Springs, Fla., the company’s Arb-IT™ software fully automates the step-by-step process of arbitration and mediation.

Now that the football season is behind us, I bid it farewell by embracing a football term — the “personal protector “– and applying it to arbitration. In football parlance, the personal protector is a player assigned to protect the punter (kicker) from harm. Watching the Super Bowl the other day, I came to the…

The A-Rod Saga: Batting 1.000 So Far (See For Yourself) My previous blog post here on the A-Rod saga (A-Rod’s Chances on Appeal:  Rock, Meet Hill) contained some predictions.  Several have already have come to pass; so far I am batting 1.000.       A-Rod would Bring Legal Action to Vacate Award  First, I predicted…

In short there are three takeaways here: 1) labor arbitration is a different animal, but the scope of court review of arbitration awards is very limited, just as in business or consumer arbitrations; 2) A-Rod is pushing the proverbial rock up a hill with his announced intention to appeal Arbitrator Horowitz’s decision that he be suspended for 162 games (an entire season); and 3) there is a small window of opportunity that might allow him to play this year.

The story becomes more complicated when Citigroup and the individual broker sought to challenge the award in state court on the grounds of manifest disregard of law, and bias because two of the arbitrators failed to make required disclosures. It turns out the parties appeared to have settled their dispute before the arbitration was commenced. This the court seizes on without addressing the arbitrator disclosure issue.

Page 11 of 16 1 9 10 11 12 13 16