It’s midnight and you’re in the final stages of negotiation in a complex international transaction. It’s probably a safe bet that the last thing on your mind is dispute resolution and whether the ...

Last year a firestorm erupted after General Mills, the maker of Bisquick, Cheerios, and other food brands, changed the legal terms on its website, requiring that all disputes related to the purchase ...

Many dealer Buyer’s Orders and RISCs contain a provision indicating any customer dispute will be subject to arbitration. The thought behind including this disputed arbitration wording revolves around ...

If you use the Venmo app, you probably recently received an email explaining that the company is making changes to its user agreement — including a fairly onerous arbitration clause that, among other ...

So you’ve heard about Apple’s new credit card, and you want to give it a try. Before you sign on the dotted line, there is at least one aspect of Apple’s agreement (besides any fees and percentage ...

An agreement to arbitrate can empower the parties and afford them a good deal of control over the dispute resolution process. A well-constructed arbitration clause can provide certainty by outlining ...

Whether a dispute will be litigated or arbitrated is usually determined long before the dispute even arises—at the time a contract is negotiated, drafted, and executed. Companies and practitioners ...

January 4, 2024 - On Dec. 5, 2023, the Office of the Investor Advocate (OIAD) published its Report on Activities for the Fiscal Year 2023, an annual report it submits to Congress regarding the ...

In the category of adding insult to injury — or perhaps piling one injury on top of another — Wells Fargo is an expert. Nothing demonstrates that more than the bank’s insistence on forcing the victims ...

In July 2018, Ronald Gorny woke up in his Chicago home and noticed a few small insects scurrying on his new upholstered headboard. Gorny pulled back the sheets to find dozens of more bugs, all ...

The mandatory arbitration clauses that 61% of the nation’s 15,000 registered investment advisor firms require clients to sign benefit advisors over investors, SEC staff said in a new report sent to ...