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Civil Litigation,
Labor/Employment

Oct. 15, 2019

The battle for the future of arbitration

The Freedom to Contract Camp vs. the Concerned Camp

Stephen A. Rossi

Senior Associate
Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp LLP

Phone: (310) 312-3240

Email: sar@msk.com

Stephen regularly represents clients in employment and traditional labor matters and has extensive experience litigating over arbitration agreements.

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When it comes to arbitration agreements in the employment context, lawyers, judges and politicians appear to fall into two camps. There is the Freedom to Contract Camp, made up of those that believe in an individual's freedom to contract for anything that is legal, including to use arbitration to resolve employment disputes instead of court litigation. And there is the Concerned Camp (which this author imagines is called the Paternalistic Camp behind its back by the Freedom to Contract Cam...

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