Arbitration is used by thousands of organizations from every sector that count on the American Arbitration Association® (AAA®) and our 87 years of knowledge and experience to resolve a variety of disputes, including large and complex cases.  As part of our ongoing efforts to directly address users’ stated preferences for a more streamlined, cost-effective and tightly-managed process, the AAA has issued revised Commercial Arbitration Rules that will apply to cases filed as of October 1, 2013.

The revisions include:

• a mediation step for all cases with claims of $75,000 or more (subject to the ability of any party to opt-out)
• arbitral control over information exchange (discovery)
• the availability of emergency measures of protection
• access to dispositive motions
• new preliminary hearing rules as well as remedies and sanctions for non-compliance

To download a copy of the revised rules, click here.

More [HERE]. 

Thanks to George Friedman for raising awareness of this.