Employment Litigation, Arbitration Agreements, Arbitrators

10 Compelling Reasons for Employment Arbitration: Eliminating Excessive Discovery

Clark Hill PLC on 6/30/2025

This fourth installment of the 10 Compelling Reasons for Employment Arbitration discusses the advantages of conducting discovery pursuant to an arbitration agreement as opposed to under typical court rules. Because...more

10 Compelling Reasons for Employment Arbitration: Part 2

Clark Hill PLC on 6/12/2025

Managing litigation risk should be a priority for all employers. Mandatory employment arbitration programs create a framework of dispute resolution that helps give employers a measure of control and predictability over their...more

Major Changes to AAA Employment Arbitration Rules: What Employers and Litigants Need to Know

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 5/8/2025

Effective May 1, 2025, the American Arbitration Association (“AAA”) implemented significant revisions to AAA Employment/Workplace Arbitration Rules and Mediation Procedures. According to the AAA, these revisions aim to...more

Court of Appeal Harmonizes Enforcement of Arbitration Agreements with Arbitrator's Authority

Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP on 3/7/2025

Readers of this blog are, by now, aware of California’s judicial and legislative hostility toward arbitration. Over the last few months, however, employers have seen a surprising number of appellate victories in their...more

The 12 days of California Labor & Employment Series – Day 2: Failure to Timely Pay Arbitrator May Lose the Right to Arbitrate

Hinshaw & Culbertson - Employment Law... on 12/6/2021

In the spirit of the season, we are using our annual "12 days of the holidays" blog series to address new California laws and their impact on California employers. On this second day of the holidays, my labor and employment...more

Fifth Circuit Rules that Courts, Not Arbitrators, Decide “Gateway Issue” of Class Arbitrability

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 8/13/2019

In 20/20 Communications, Inc. v. Crawford, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit recently ruled that the question of whether a dispute can be arbitrated on a class-wide basis is a threshold issue that is...more

Ninth Circuit Affirms Order Compelling Class Arbitration in Employment Dispute Involving Two Employment Agreements With Varying...

Carlton Fields on 5/1/2019

Oracle America Inc. appealed the trial court’s order compelling class arbitration in an employment dispute in which there were two agreements at issue, one with, and one without, a class action waiver. The Ninth Circuit...more

Seventh Circuit Joins Sister Circuits in Holding That Courts, not Arbitrators, Should Decide the Availability of Class Arbitration

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 10/29/2018

In a matter of first impression before the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals involving an issue left open by the Supreme Court of the United States, a Seventh Circuit panel issued an opinion on a key threshold question of...more

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