Legal experts say a recent federal appellate ruling will make it harder for plaintiffs attorneys to create mass arbitrations, a phenomenon that has emerged where large groups of nearly identical individual arbitration demands are brought against a business.

Following a U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit decision involving Samsung last week, lawyers will have to do more front-end work to identify and vet lists of consumers before filing mass arbitrations, Georgetown Law professor Maria Glover stated via email.