Texas’ Fifth District Court of Appeals has ruled that a dispute between a licensed securities broker and an investment company must be arbitrated before FINRA rather than the AAA.

In Parker v. Schlumberger Technology Corporation, No. 01-14-01018-CV (Tex. App – Houston [1st], September 17, 2015), Schlumberger Technology Corporation (“STC”) filed a lawsuit against two individuals in the 268th District Court of Fort Bend County, Texas.

Carrie Menkel-Meadow, Chancellor’s Professor of Law at the University of California Irvine School of Law and Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center, has authored “Variations in the Uptake of and Resistance to Mediation Outside of the United States,” Chapter 13 in: Contemporary Issues in International Arbitration and Mediation: The Fordham Papers 2014, edited by Arthur Rovine, Brill-Nijhoff, Leiden and Boston, 2015, Forthcoming; UC Irvine School of Law Research Paper No. 2015-80.

Vera Korzun, Adjunct Professor at the Fordham University School of Law, has authored “Arbitrating Antitrust Claims: From Suspicion to Trust,” New York University Journal of International Law and Politics (JILP), Vol. 48, 2016, Forthcoming.