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New Rating System Assists With Search for Arbitrators
Corporate Counsel
Monday, October 5, 2009
If there are online user ratings for books and restaurants, why can't there be a similar system for mediators and arbitrators? That reasoning led the International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution (CPR) to strike an outsourcing deal with a little-known company that has already introduced such a service. CPR's new arbitrator rating system is slated to launch in January, and if it succeeds, it could put the concept on the map.
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Arbitration Not Mandatory for Ex-KBR Employee Allegedly Raped in Iraq
Texas Lawyer
Monday, September 28, 2009
From the beginning, Jamie Leigh Jones has wanted to tell a jury about the hell she went through while working in Iraq for Kellogg Brown & Root. Now a panel of 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judges has cleared the way for her to do just that. L. Todd Kelly (pictured), who represents Jones, has battled to get Jones' suit in front of a jury for more than two years.
No Decision in Arbitration Leads To More Litigation
Texas Lawyer
Monday, July 27, 2009
Alleging a partner in Strasburger & Price in Dallas failed to issue an arbitration decision in a dispute over ownership of a ranch, a former owner of Fort Worth-based Blackmon Mooring seeks nearly a half-million dollars in actual damages and unspecified punitives from the firm and partner Charles M. Hosch in a breach of contract and fraud suit.
Manifest Destiny: 5th Circuit Nixes Manifest Disregard as Ground for Vacatur of Arbitration Awards
Texas Lawyer
Monday, March 16, 2009
Abandon all hope, ye who seek to overturn an arbitration award, because the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that manifest disregard of the law by arbitrators is no longer a ground for vacatur under the Federal Arbitration Act. Dallas solo Brady Sparks represents Debra Bacon in Citigroup Global Markets Inc. v. Bacon.
Federal Judge Sanctions Susman Godfrey Partner Ophelia Camina
Texas Lawyer
Monday, March 16, 2009
One of Texas' ugliest arbitration battles in recent memory has resulted in U.S. District Judge David Godbey issuing a $10,000 sanction against Ophelia Camina, a partner in the Dallas office of Susman Godfrey, for acting in bad faith.
Arbitration Sought In Auction Rate Securities Fight
Texas Lawyer
Monday, February 9, 2009
Houston-based Amegy Bank and its investment arm, Amegy Investments Inc., are asking in an arbitration proceeding that Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith be required to buy back $140 million in auction rate securities (ARS) that it sold to them. "There is no basis for or merit to any of Amegy's claims," says a Merrill Lynch spokesman.
