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Labor/Employment

Mar. 3, 2020

Arbitrator rewrote rules with help from Gibson Dunn attorney, emails indicate

The emails showing a Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher attorney working with the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution Inc. to tailor its arbitration rules were unsealed last week.

After nearly 6,000 couriers filed arbitration demands against DoorDash last year, the food delivery company switched to an arbitration service that rewrote its rules for handling mass employment claims by following instructions from DoorDash's attorneys, according to emails unsealed by a federal judge.

DoorDash is no longer enforcing these rules for the plaintiffs in Abernathy et al. v. DoorDash, Inc., C...

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