Litigation
Feb. 15, 2007
Arbitration Bind
Focus Column - By Jerome J. Blum and Allan Herzlich - Arbitration is supposed to make the resolution of attorney-client disputes easy, but it doesn't always work out that way. Two specialists take a stab at reconciling California's inconsistent rules on the subject.
By Jerome J. Blum and Allan Herzlich
A ttorney retainer agreements often provide binding-arbitration provisions for resolution of fee and nonfee disputes, including malpractice. Are such provisions enforceable? What alternatives are available?
In Schatz v. Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory, 2007 DJDAR 407, the 4th District Court of Appeal held recently that a b...
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