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New York Law Journal

RBG and Jay-Z: A 12-Step Recovery Plan for Increasing Diversity in ADR

2018 will be remembered as the year Jay-Z forced a media spotlight on the lack of diversity in Alternative Dispute Resolution. Jay-Z's complaint drives home the fact that meaningful change on this front depends on clients and their lawyers—the ultimate selectors, the purchasers of arbitration services.
9 minute read

New York Law Journal

Small Business Jobs Survival Act May Have Opposite Effect

The New York City Council is considering a bill, the Small Business Jobs Survival Act, that it claims will protect small businesses even though the Act contains no protections tailored to them. Instead, the Act would implement a new lease renewal arbitration system that treats all commercial tenancies the same, allowing businesses as large as Amazon to benefit.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Fraud as a Defense Against the Enforcement of International Arbitral Awards

In their International Litigation column, Lawrence W. Newman and David Zaslowsky write: Although fraudulently obtained arbitral awards are no doubt unenforceable in virtually every country, proving the taint of fraud presents legal and evidentiary challenges. A recent series of cases involving an award against the Republic of Kazakhstan shows the difficulties that can confront award debtors seeking denial of enforcement of awards against them on grounds of violation of public policy based on fraud.
9 minute read

The Recorder

Arbitration: Is It Still Worth It?

Fast-food chain Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. has found itself at the center of the ongoing debate over mandatory arbitration provisions in employment agreements. That debate has always assumed that arbitration clauses favor employers. However, the most recent developments in a wage-and-hour case against Chipotle have called that assumption into question.
6 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

BAR REPORT - Capitol Report

Supreme Court sides with NJSBA on arbitration agreement
3 minute read

Law.com

Moonves to Fight for $120M Severance in Arbitration With CBS

CBS said in a filing with the SEC that Moonves had informed the company Wednesday that he intended to use a binding arbitration provision in his contract to try to recover his "golden parachute" after the company determined there were grounds to fire him for cause.
4 minute read

Delaware Business Court Insider

Moonves Plans to Battle CBS in Arbitration Over $120M Severance

CBS said in a filing with the SEC that Moonves had informed the company Wednesday that he intended to use a binding arbitration provision in his contract to try to recover his "golden parachute" after the company determined there were grounds to fire him for cause.
4 minute read

Litigation Daily

Ex-CBS Head Moonves to Fight for $120M Severance in Arbitration

CBS said in a filing with the SEC that Moonves had informed the company Wednesday that he intended to use a binding arbitration provision in his contract to try to recover his "golden parachute" after the company determined there were grounds to fire him for cause.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Waiving or Forfeiting the Right to Arbitrate—Recent Cases Tackle Issue

Cases considering whether arbitration has been waived reflect how careful a party must be in seeking to preserve this right. Examples of this outcome are reflected in two recent federal cases.
8 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Rocawear Owner, Backed by Blank Rome, Blasts Jay-Z Claims Over AAA Arbitrators' Diversity

Iconix, which purchased Rocawear from the rapper and businessman for $200 million, says there's no merit to his bid to scrap an arbitration stemming from that 2007 deal.
5 minute read

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