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Arbitration Ambush In A Policy Polemic, Amy J. Schmitz
Arbitration Ambush In A Policy Polemic, Amy J. Schmitz
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Arbitration has been demonized in the media and consumer protection debates, often without empirical support or consideration of its attributes. This has led to renewed efforts to pass the Arbitration Fairness Action, which would bar enforcement of pre-dispute arbitration clauses in consumer, employment, and civil rights contexts. It also inspired Dodd-Frank’s preclusion of arbitration clauses in mortgage contracts, along with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s charge to prohibit or limit enforcement of pre-dispute arbitration agreements in consumer financial products and services contracts. Some of this negativity toward arbitration is warranted, especially in the wake of the United Supreme Court’s recent …
Supergeneric Collateral Descriptions In Financing Statements And Notice Filing, Lissa Lamkin Broome
Supergeneric Collateral Descriptions In Financing Statements And Notice Filing, Lissa Lamkin Broome
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Teaching Gender As A Core Value In The Firstyear Contracts Class, Kerri Lynn Stone
Teaching Gender As A Core Value In The Firstyear Contracts Class, Kerri Lynn Stone
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A Collaborative Model Of Offshore Legal Outsourcing, Cassandra Burke Robertson
A Collaborative Model Of Offshore Legal Outsourcing, Cassandra Burke Robertson
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International outsourcing has come to the legal profession. The ABA and other bar associations have given it their stamp of approval, and an ailing economy has pushed both clients and firms to consider sending more legal work abroad. This article integrates research from the fields of organizational behavior, social psychology, and economic theory to analyze the effectiveness of the legal outsourcing relationship. It identifies organizational pressures in the practice of law that affect how legal work is performed in a transnational context, and it examines how individuals on both sides of the outsourcing process influence the success or failure of …