ARBITRATION: GREAT EXPECTATIONS, UNFULFILLED PROMISES
John Worden -- Schiff Hardin (San Francisco, CA)
Want limited appellate recourse, an uneven playing field, questionable objectivity, lack of transparency, increased costs? Well then, arbitration is for you. Trial lawyer John Worden examines the concessions that corporate litigants make in selecting arbitration over jury trials, including the virtual absence of appellate rights, no opportunities for dispositive motions, routine flaunting of evidentiary rules, and other downsides that increasingly counsel against mandatory arbitration.