By George H. Friedman, SAA Publisher & Editor-in-Chief
In what we are certain is a reaction to a flurry of multiple individual arbitrations that relate to the same event,
By Christian Mercado*
Introduction
The securities industry is an example of one attempting to mitigate equity concerns surrounding arbitration agreements contained in contracts of adhesion.
By George H. Friedman, SAA Publisher & Editor-in-Chief
DIRECTV is seeking a rehearing en banc on a split Ninth Circuit decision that had denied its Motion to compel arbitration.
Allegations that new financial advisors were rigidly controlled in the products they could sell and spent most of their time generating new sales leads are sufficient to state a claim that they should have been classified as non-exempt salespeople rather than exempt professionals and paid overtime under the FLSA.
A commodities newsletter “transacts business” in Kansas where two of its subscribers are based in Kansas,
In order to preclude later-filed opt-out claims related to a settled class action as “proceed[ing]” in a single,