The American Arbitration Association, for the first time since 2009, made changes in the commercial arbitration rules, effective for arbitrations initiated after Oct. 1, 2013. This article discusses strategies to take advantage of the revised rules, which you will find at adr.org.
R-17 requires the parties and their representatives to make disclosures about possible conflicts as to a potential arbitrator, and provides that a party’s failure to disclose a potential conflict may result in waiver of the right to object to an arbitrator.
