We’ve written extensively about mandatory workplace arbitration. But it was still an honor when CEB, a program of the University of California that is cosponsored by the State Bar of
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Employment Arbitration
Judicial Hostility to Employment Arbitration Flares up in 9th Circuit
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When you draft employment arbitration agreements, it’s not enough to know what the law is. You should also know what the law will be at the time that someone challenges…
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Should CA Arbitration Agreements Allow Employees to Opt Out?
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My colleague Brian Berkley in Philadelphia wrote a piece in today’s Law360 titled “Can Opt-Out Provisions Save Arbitration Clauses?” He focuses on recent litigation involving Uber and its…
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California and Federal Workplace Arbitration Law Remain in Conflict – MHN Govt. Svcs. v. Zaborowski
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We asked nearly 4 years ago if Armendariz (the key California Supreme Court case from 2004 on employment arbitration) was on a collision course with Concepcion (the US Supreme Court…
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Can’t You Be For Arbitration and Against Rape?
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I’ve been sitting on this one for a while. Every time I tried to write about it, it came across as either too indignant or too glib and I gave…
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