Sarah Biser will be speaking at an IBA Webinar on “Beyond COVID-19: Impact on Construction Contracts and Projects”. What has changed? What’s better? What needs to be improved? What are the new trends?.
The conference is on 7 December 2021, 1300-1415 GMT; 8:00 to 9:15 Eastern. Register here: https://www.ibanet.org/conference-details/CONF2078
Problems, disagreements and claims arise in most large and complex construction projects regardless of the project delivery method — design-build, design-bid-build, construction manager at risk, construction manager not at risk and integrated project delivery system. These disputes can and do delay and significantly increase the cost of the project. Dispute Review…
Sarah Biser and Craig Tractenberg will be presenting a webinar on hop topics on international litigation and arbitration on thursday, November 4, 2021 at 12 pm eastern.. You can register .by contacting jseader@foxrothschild.com.
Sarah Biser will be speaking at GAR Connect: Atlanta 2021 on September 13, 2021 regarding the considerations involved in challenging the partiality of an arbitrator – GAR Live: Would you challenge?
Strategies to Collect International Arbitration Awards
One of the problems that parties to international arbitration face is that the opposing party may attempt to move its assets so that if an award it entered against it, the assets will no longer be available to satisfy the award. Here, we discuss a recent case in which…
Objectives and Considerations
The majority of international arbitrations are decided by three-member arbitration panels. Each party selects its “party-appointed” arbitrator, and the president or chair of the three-member panel is selected by the two party-appointed arbitrators, by a neutral authority or by other agreement of the parties.[1] This blog discusses some of the more…
For the second time in four years, the U.S. Supreme Court has declined to resolve an arbitration-related issue that state and federal courts have been wrestling with over the last decade: whether the Federal Arbitration Act (“FAA”) precludes courts from invoking public policy as a ground for refusing to enforce arbitration awards. While public policy…
Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law on June 14 legislation that amended Article 53 of the New York Civil Practice Law and Rules (“CPLR”), changing the rules regarding the state’s recognition of foreign money judgments.
The bill updates state law, making it consistent with the revised Uniform Foreign-Country Money Judgments Recognition Act (the “2005 Uniform…
In cases involving contracts between U.S. companies, courts frequently allow a nonsignatory to a contract to enforce an arbitration provision in the contract against a signatory, when the signatory to the contract relies on the terms of that agreement in asserting its claims against the nonsignatory. On June 1, 2020, the United States Supreme Court…
The Supreme Court has granted certiorari on an issue involving domestic arbitration that has divided the federal courts of appeal (Badgerow v. Walters, Docket No. 20-1143):
Do federal courts have subject-matter jurisdiction to confirm or vacate an arbitration award under Sections 9 and 10 of the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) where the only…
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