United States: Arbitration & Dispute Resolution

California employers continue to navigate a new, costly and often unclear legal landscape when defending claims under the California Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA). Recent legislative reforms, enacted in 2024, significantly modified how PAGA penalties are calculated...

On March 25, 2026, in Thrive Operations, LLC v. Gecko Robotics, Inc., the Massachusetts Superior Court denied Thrive’s motion to dismiss Gecko’s counterclaims...

First Tuesday Update is our monthly take on current issues in commercial disputes, international arbitration, and judgment enforcement.

Mediation has become one of the most important tools for resolving disputes efficiently, privately, and with far more control than a courtroom allows.

The Sixth Circuit has delivered the first federal appellate rejection of the NLRB's Cemex bargaining order framework, arising from a Kentucky bourbon distillery union campaign where management's strategic wage increases and benefits preceded a decisive union defeat. This landmark decision characterizes Cemex as improper rulemaking disguised as adjudication, potentially reshaping how unions achieve recognition and offering employers a powerful template for challenging similar orders nationwide.

When applying to work at Empire Nissan, Evangelina Yanez Fuentes was given an employment application packet that included an arbitration agreement...

A lawsuit involving Chance the Rapper and his former manager, Pat Corcoran, highlights a costly lesson for businesses, creatives, and entrepreneurs alike: handshake deals can lead to million-dollar disputes.

A federal appeals court has struck down the FTC's authority to adjudicate deceptive advertising claims through its internal administrative process, ruling that such enforcement violates constitutional separation of powers. The Fifth Circuit's decision in Intuit v. FTC requires these cases to be heard in federal court, potentially reshaping how the agency pursues advertising enforcement actions and raising broader questions about the Commission's structural constitutionality.

The English High Court refused to stay LCIA arbitrations pending challenges to procedural orders and the arbitrator, reaffirming the high threshold for curial intervention...