Arbitration, mediation, and/or settlement discussions may help resolve a dispute more quickly and efficiently than litigation, but the results often prompt litigation and appeals. When clients turn to these alternative dispute resolution techniques, GMSR helps them by recommending mediators or arbitrators, formulating strategy, and drafting briefs that persuasively lay out their position. GMSR also routinely represents clients in appellate proceedings related to alternative dispute resolution.
GMSR’s client, Porch.com, is an online marketplace that connects homeowners with home-service providers. Porch.com agreed to acquire Kandela, a moving services company, and the parties signed an acquisition agreement with an arbitration clause. Eventually, Kandela claimed that Porch.com had committed fraud and the parties submitted
Court of Appeal affirms judgment confirming arbitration award, holding that the appellant failed to provide a sufficient appellate record
Please join GMSR partner Jeff Raskin, our resident arbitration expert, for his upcoming presentation on arbitration law, sponsored by the Beverly Hills Bar Association. Using a policy-driven and pop-culture inspired approach, Jeff will explain how to effectively handle petitions to compel arbitration and petitions to
Court of Appeal orders confirmation of arbitration award for GMSR’s client, finding the respondent missed a jurisdictional deadline to seek to vacate it
Litigation funder Law Finance Group turned to GMSR after the trial court vacated an arbitration award enforcing LFG’s loan agreement with a borrower. On appeal, GMSR argued that the trial court lacked jurisdiction to vacate the award because the borrower failed to seek vacatur within
Court of Appeal rules for GMSR client Angelina Jolie, holding that a private judge violated a continuing obligation to disclose new matters involving counsel representing Jolie’s ex-husband Brad Pitt
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s ongoing divorce proceeding has been handled by a party-compensated private judge sitting as a Los Angeles Superior Court judge. Such judges have an ongoing obligation to disclose new paid engagements with counsel representing either side. After several rounds of such
Countless published cases invoke California’s public policy in favor of arbitration to justify everything from expansive interpretation of arbitration agreements to the extremely narrow scope of judicial review of arbitration awards. Less well-known are two doctrines that allow parties to use public policy against arbitration,
Judicial references are an attractive alternative to waiting behind the superior court’s Covid-19 backlog to get to trial. But there are traps for the unwary: Many practitioners do not know about some important legal aspects of references, and they often fail to appreciate what they
Court of Appeal affirms order denying in-house fees to attorneys
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