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Feb. 9, 2018

California is missing out on international arbitration business

Foreign lawyers and foreign parties to international commercial agreements have largely bypassed California and have chosen to seat their arbitrations outside of California.

Richard Chernick

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JAMS

arbitration, business/commercial, international, construction, entertainment and sports, federal law, governmental/public agency, health care, insurance, intellectual property, personal injury/torts, real property, surety

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USC Law School

Richard is a JAMS panelist based in Southern California and vice president of the JAMS Arbitration Practice. He is a nationally recognized expert in the resolution of complex and multi-party matters and has conducted hundreds of large and complex arbitrations and mediations, employing various rules and before all major administering institutions, both nationally and internationally.

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Howard B. Miller

Howard is a contributing editor and podcast host at the Daily Journal. He is a JAMS mediator and arbitrator, a past president of the State Bar of California, and a former professor of law at the USC Gould School of Law.

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For the past decade international arbitration has been one of the fastest growing areas of legal practice, worldwide and in the U.S. in New York and Miami. The legal and business communities in California, by itself the sixth largest economy in the world and with many vibrant diaspora communities and foreign trade and investment, should have shared in that growth. We have not. That may be about to change.

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