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CCA Launches New Mentorship Opportunity
The CCA Associates Program aims to increase diversity in the field of ADR. Read More
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News
CCA Congratulates and Welcomes the New Fellows Class of 2022!
CCA welcomes 20 new Fellows for the Class of 2022. Read More
CCA Blogs
Arbitration is Efficient! US Supreme Court Rejects Foreign Discovery Requests in International Arbitration
My friends on the US Supreme Court unanimously agreed this week that parties in foreign arbitrations cannot ask US courts for discovery. Read More
Media Library
Convincing Your Arbitrators to Authorize the Discovery You Really Need in Your Commercial Arbitration
CCA Presents: Convincing Your Arbitrators to Authorize the Discovery You Really Need in Your Commercial Arbitration (CCA/Juris Webinar Series, Session II) Read More
Media Library
What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You: The Hidden Impacts of Unconscious Bias
A CCA Education Committee webinar. Read More
Articles by Fellows
2022 Virtual Arbitration Report to CCA
CCA surveyed its membership seeking the individual and collective experiences and opinions of the Fellows regarding arbitrations conducted in whole or in part through remote video technology (‘virtual arbitrations’). This is a preliminary summary of the results of that survey Read More
CCA Blogs
The Many Good Things About Commercial Arbitration
Negative comments on consumer or workplace arbitration seem to somehow be newsworthy or get shared while positive aspects of arbitration, consumer or commercial, somehow miss the spotlight. Read More
CCA Blogs
CCA Fellows Know About Mockingbirds and Other important Things
A recent public report of an arbitration award issued by College Fellow Richard H. Silberberg provides a case in point. Read More
Articles by Fellows
Improving the Arbitration Process Using a CCA Process Facilitator
Many members of CCA are successful mediators as well as arbitrators. As mediators they can function concurrently as Process Facilitators ("PFs") during an arbitration to help the parties prepare for an efficient arbitration. Read More
CCA Blogs
The Floodgates Have Opened: Mass Arbitrations
A series of U.S. Supreme Court decisions have all but eliminated class arbitrations for consumers, employees, franchisees, and others with common claims against a single company. The latest, decisive blow came in Lamps Plus, Inc. v. Varela, 587 U.S. __, 203 L. Ed. 2d 636 (2019), with the Court holding that arbitration on a classwide basis could not be compelled based on an arbitration agreement’s ambiguous language. Most arbitration agreements include a waiver of class arbitrations; some are silent. There are virtually none explicitly allowing for class arbitration. Read More
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