An Arbitration Sign of the Times

If you think arbitration is not a significant player in employment law dispute resolution, you would have to think twice when you see that t...

Arbitration (Is Not the Same as) Courts of Conciliation

In my first year of law school at the University of Texas, we had a class called "Introduction to the Study of Law." My section wa...

Jury Waivers Treated Same As Arbitration Agreements by Texas Supreme Court

I would have been surprised if the decision went the other way, but today the Texas Supreme Court affirmed that an at will employee who sign...

Legislative Override of Supreme Court

What a difference three years makes. Unlike the opening weeks of the prior Congress when it could not act fast enough to get the reversal of...

Arbitration As Protection Against Class Actions

Today the Supreme Court gave a powerful tool for employers to avoid collective and class actions when it overturned the 9th Circuit's de...

Arbitration (Awards) Not Necessarily Private in Texas

Thanks to Professor Ross Runkel for calling my attention to a case decided in my own backyard, McAfee, Inc. v. Weiss , (Tx. App. - Dallas 3....