Mass Arbitration: Processing Claims; Managing and Securing Information; Resolving Underlying Disputes
Recording of a 90-minute CLE video webinar with Q&A
This CLE course will guide class action counsel through the logistics and considerations of managing hundreds or thousands of individual arbitration proceedings filed against a defendant alleging the same or similar claims.
Outline
- Rise of mass arbitration
- Receiving, analyzing, managing, and securing claims and information
- Managing mass arbitration
- Rules
- Selecting arbitrators
- Hearings or summary resolution
- Substantive law
- The value of precedent
- Binding effect
- Settlement considerations
- How to discourage the filing of a mass arbitration
Benefits
The panel will review these and other pivotal issues:
- What are the rules for mass arbitration established by arbitration providers?
- How are arbitrators chosen in mass arbitrations?
- What Rule 23 or MDL procedures are valuable and available in mass arbitrations?
- Are there any fee-shifting considerations in mass arbitrations?
- Are the results of one arbitration binding on others?
Faculty
Robert J. Herrington
Co-Chair, Class Action Litigation Group
Greenberg Traurig
Mr. Herrington's practice focuses on complex commercial litigation, including class actions in the areas of false... | Read More
Mr. Herrington's practice focuses on complex commercial litigation, including class actions in the areas of false advertising, unfair competition, food and beverage, consumer products, insurance, and products liability. He helps sophisticated business clients address complex disputes and competitive challenges to their products, services and business practices.
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Mark J. Levin
Senior Counsel
Ballard Spahr
Mark J. Levin is a senior counsel at Ballard Spahr LLP and a member of the firm’s Consumer Financial Services... | Read More
Mark J. Levin is a senior counsel at Ballard Spahr LLP and a member of the firm’s Consumer Financial Services Group and Litigation Department. His practice is focused on consumer financial services litigation, and he has extensive experience in the structuring and enforcement of consumer arbitration clauses and the defense of financial services companies in consumer class actions. Mr. Levin has enforced consumer arbitration agreements with class action waivers in the U.S. Supreme Court and numerous federal and state appellate and trial courts and has tried both individual and class arbitrations. He testified for the industry before a subcommittee of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee at an oversight hearing on whether predispute arbitration provisions in consumer contracts are fair to consumers. Mr. Levin has published more than 50 articles on consumer arbitration including, for each of the past 25 years, an update on important arbitration law developments for The Business Lawyer’s annual survey.
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Michael E. McCarthy
Shareholder
Greenberg Traurig
Mr. McCarthy focuses his practice on complex commercial litigation and class action defense. Hel also specializes in... | Read More
Mr. McCarthy focuses his practice on complex commercial litigation and class action defense. Hel also specializes in financial institutions, construction, real estate, privacy and appellate litigation. Mr. McCarthy represents companies in a variety of industries, including retail, consumer products and financial services.
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