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U.S. Supreme Court Denies Certiorari in Texas Arbitration Case
By Beth Graham - May 24, 2017
On Monday, the United States Supreme Court denied certiorari in Parallel Networks, Inc. v. Jenner & Block, LLP, No. 16-1271.
SCOTX Refuses to Reconsider Patent Company’s Request to Vacate Arbitrator’s $3 Million Legal Fees Award
By Beth Graham - January 26, 2017
The Supreme Court of Texas has once again declined to consider a company’s request to vacate an arbitrator’s award in a legal fees dispute.
Lawsuit Challenging the Department of Labor’s Ban on Class Action Waivers in Arbitration Filed in N. D. Texas
By Beth Graham - June 2, 2016
Yesterday, the Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America, the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, the Texas Association of Business, and a number of other organizations filed a lawsuit over the U. S. Department of Labor’s regulations regarding fiduciary conflict of interest rules for retirement plans.
Supreme Court of Texas Agrees to Consider Whether Attorney-Client Arbitration Agreement is Unconscionable
By Beth Graham - February 20, 2015
Earlier today, the Supreme Court of Texas agreed to consider whether or not an arbitration agreement between a law firm and its former client was one-sided and substantively unconscionable. In the case, In re: Royston Rayzor Vickery & Williams, LLP, No. 14-0109, a man, Lopez, retained a law firm, Royston Rayzor Vickery & Williams, LLP (“Royston”) to represent him in divorce proceedings related to his common law marriage.
Special Masters: How To Make the Best of Both Worlds, Part V
By Merril Hirsh, James M. Rhodes, Karl Bayer - January 12, 2015
In Part Four we began to discuss solutions (not just problems), and urged that a first step in incentivizing counsel to hold down litigation costs is to have a neutral oversee the process of discovery closely enough (1) to make it in counsel’s interest to act reasonably in the first place; and (2) to rule on unreasonable demands or failures to respond to discovery quickly, so that they gain no tactical advantage.
Houston COA Orders All Parties to Arbitration in High Stakes Legal Malpractice Lawsuit
By Beth Graham - September 17, 2014
Texas’ Fourteenth Court of Appeals in Houston has reversed a trial court’s order denying arbitration in a legal malpractice dispute. In Greenberg Traurig, LLP v. National American Ins. Co., National American Insurance Company (NAICO) retained the services of an attorney at Greenberg Traurig, LLP (Greenberg) to defend Okie Foundation Drilling Co., Inc. (Okie) in an appeal in an accidental death case.
International Commercial Arbitration Coming to a Courthouse Near You
By Beth Graham - September 15, 2014
Retired Judge Judith S. Kaye, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, and University of Missouri School of Law Professor S.I. Strong recently published International Commercial Arbitration Coming to a Courthouse Near You, 53 Judges’ Journal 20 (Summer 2014); University of Missouri School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2014-20.
Texas Supreme Court Holds Law Firm Did Not Waive Arbitration in Fee Dispute
By Beth Graham - May 21, 2014
The Supreme Court of Texas has held that a law firm did not waive its right to arbitrate a fee dispute with a former client after the firm sued one of its former associates who continued to represent the client after the associate left the firm.
Protecting Confidential Information in Commercial Mediations
By Beth Graham - March 10, 2014
Paul M. Lurie, Partner at Schiff Hardin LLP, and Sharon Press, Professor at Hamline University School of Law, have published Protecting Confidential Information in Commercial Mediations, Dispute Resolution Magazine, p. 40 (Winter 2014 Forthcoming).
Developing a Framework for Arbitrating Standards-Essential Patent (SEP) Disputes
By Beth Graham - November 8, 2013
Jorge L. Contreras, Associate Professor of Law at American University, Washington College of Law, and David L. Newman, Partner in the Intellectual Property Law Group at Arnstein & Lehr LLP, have authored an interesting article entitled, Developing a Framework for Arbitrating Standards-Essential Patent (SEP) Disputes, Journal of Dispute Resolution, (2014, forthcoming).
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