by Marvin Schuldiner | Oct 30, 2008 | Arbitration, Commercial Mediation, Lawsuits
The U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics has released the “Civil Justice Survey of State Courts, 2005”. The 2005 CJSSC was the first time that the series examined general civil trials concluded in a national sample of urban,...
by Marvin Schuldiner | Oct 3, 2008 | Arbitration, Commercial Mediation
Two interesting cases have come up in NJ neighbors dealing with raises for judges. In New York, judges have not been granted a raise in salary by the legislature and governor in 10 years. Their salaries were tied to the fate of those of the legislators and governor...
by Marvin Schuldiner | Aug 1, 2008 | Arbitration
This question is one of the big debates going on in the legal and ADR/CDR worlds. Arbitration is essentially a private court (actually, that’s what tv shows like “People’s Court” and “Judy Judy” are). The advantage is generally...
by Marvin Schuldiner | Aug 1, 2008 | Arbitration
FINRA is the financial industry’s self-regulatory arm. Part of what they do is manage arbitrations for broker-client and broker-employee disputes. Nearly all brokerage agreements and broker employment agreements contain a clause mandating aribtration rather...
by Marvin Schuldiner | Aug 1, 2008 | Arbitration, Commercial Mediation, Lawsuits
A federal court in California recently ruled that a company who did not mediate their dispute prior to filing suit, according to the agreement between the parties, will have its case dismissed. In Brosnan v. Dry Cleaning Systems Inc, plaintiff entered a dry cleaning...
by Marvin Schuldiner | Jun 26, 2008 | Arbitration, Lawsuits, Off Beat
You’re an American citizen of Afghan-Uzbek extract who operated the Uzbekistan bottler for the Coca-Cola Company through your family’s company. Uzbekistan is considered one of the most oppressive nations on earth. You meet the daughter of the...
