What In-House Counsel Need To Know About Their Form Arbitration Clauses
Most arbitrations, and all commercial arbitrations, are creations of contract, and courts are generally required to enforce an arbitration agreement as they would any other contract, points out Samuel M. Tony Starr on Mintz Levin’s ADR: Advice From the Trenches blog.
Because the arbitration clause in a commercial contract is so critical, careful review of that clause surely must be a component of an enterprise’s risk analysis.
He offers 10 basic considerations that will help to guide that review.