Strategic Use of Arbitration Clauses in Contracts and Transactional Documents

About the Event

This advanced program will take a detailed look at how arbitration clauses in transactional documents can be used to your client’s advantage and disadvantage should a dispute arise. Our highly experienced panel – a transactional lawyer, a litigator and an arbitrator – will discuss the importance and potentially dramatic impact on cost and liability of specific types of arbitration clauses. Speakers will discuss recent developments and cutting edge topics in healthcare, dispute resolution, including:

• Limiting or expanding the authority of the arbitrators
• Specifying minimum qualifications of the arbitrators
• Controlling remedies, including: punitive damages, attorney’s fees, and interest
• Defining jurisdiction and location
• Defining what is arbitrable
• Why generic arbitration clauses cause legal headaches later
• Why transactional counsel and litigation counsel should collaborate
• Are some arbitration clauses unenforceable?

Featured JAMS Speaker

Barbara Reeves, Esq.

Credit

1.5 General

Date / Time

Thursday, June 20, 2019
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM EDT

Location

Online Webinar