The District of Columbia Court of Appeals on Thursday rejected the latest challenge to a local rule that requires lawyers and their clients to resolve fee fights in arbitration if the client asks for it.
Requiring arbitration doesn’t violate lawyers’ constitutional rights to access the court system, the appeals court said. Lawyers who joined the D.C. Bar agreed to follow the bar’s rules and waived their right to go to court in these cases, Judge Anna Blackburne-Rigsby wrote for the three-judge panel.
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