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Civil Litigation,
Law Practice,
Alternative Dispute Resolution

Mar. 30, 2018

The attack on arbitration continues

A consumer group recently sent the California attorney general a letter “urging” him to “investigate the practices of private arbitration firms that operate in secret, in violation of California’s Code of Civil Procedure.”

Michael H. Leb

Neutral
Leb Dispute Resolutions

Labor & Employment

Phone: (310) 284-8224

Fax: (310) 284-8229

Email: michael@lebdr.com

U Michigan Law School

THE NEUTRAL CORNER is a monthly column discussing recent cases or topics of interest from a neutral's perspective.

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The attack on arbitration continues
Xavier Becerra in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, May 5, 2016. (Shutterstock)

THE NEUTRAL CORNER

As a neutral I act as both a mediator and an arbitrator. No longer will I act as an arbitrator for an attorney or party for whom I have mediated any matter. Early in my career, I made the mistake of reluctantly acceding to the request of an attorney -- who was a good mediation client -- that I agree to act as arbitrator in a dispute in which he was representing the buyer of a house in a dispute with the contractor. That case...

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