I’m not a fan of arbitration, as a general rule—especially in consumer contracts.* That said, arbitration is far superior to litigation in many situations, and for many reasons.
In tort, not a good idea. Certainly not an appropriate venue for a family law dispute. And consumer contracts? Just… no. Only the vendor benefits.* But
CRITICAL to note at the outset:
You’ve served the complaint on all of your defendants, they’ve entered their appearances, and everybody is girded up for battle. Discovery commences. In one of your depositions, you learn that one of the defendants was somehow selling a knock-off of your client’s product through a German distributor, and you are convinced that somewhere in that
You’ve served the complaint on all of your defendants, they’ve entered their appearances, and everybody is girded up for battle. Discovery commences. In one of your depositions, you learn that one of the defendants was somehow involved in a business arrangement with a French entity, and you are convinced that somewhere in that company’s vast
Further to my November 29 post regarding President Obama’s ratification of the Convention of 05 July 2006 on the Law Applicable to Certain Rights in Respect of Securities Held with an Intermediary (the Hague Securities Convention)…
The Hague Conference’s Permanent Bureau announced yesterday that the United States has deposited the official ratification instrument for
Here is yet another post in our “How to Avoid Having to Hire Us” series. Depending on your perspective, though, it could be viewed as “How to Recover the Fees You Pay Us” instead.
Frankly, I prefer the latter. In this installment, we explore how to get the defendant to waive service or, looking at
It happens all the time. I’ll give a lecture or mention what I do at a bar association event, and the colleague I just met will express appreciation for what I do, tell me it’s a really neat niche, and then try to convince himself that our practice areas don’t overlap. I’m here to tell
It happens all the time. I’ll give a lecture or mention what I do at a bar association event, and the colleague I just met will express appreciation for what I do, tell me it’s a really neat niche, and then try to convince himself that our practice areas don’t overlap. I’m here to tell
It happens all the time. I’ll give a lecture or mention what I do at a bar association event, and the colleague I just met will express appreciation for what I do, tell me it’s a really neat niche, and then try to convince himself that our practice areas don’t overlap. I’m here to tell
A couple of years ago, I ran into a law school classmate at a happy hour hosted by our local bar association. “Hey, you handle service of process in other countries, right?” Yeah, I answered. Quite a bit of Hague Service Convention stuff.
“Great. Let me ask you a question…”
He was handling
