SEC Won’t Have Time to Tackle Issue of Mandatory Securities Arbitration
Despite increasing pressure on the SEC to exercise its Dodd-Frank-granted explicit authority to ban mandatory securities arbitration, SEC Commissioner Elisse Walter stated earlier this week, according to a report in Reuters, that the…
Call for Papers – Psychology and Lawyering: Coalescing the Field
From Jean Sternlight via the list serv. The conference is planned for Friday February 21 and Saturday Feb. 22, 2014. ————————- In recent years both academics and practitioners have…
Schwab removes class action waiver from customer agreement
Responding to substantial pressure from regulators and the investing public, the brokerage firm Charles Schwab reversed itself and eliminated the class action waiver clause from its pre-dispute arbitration clause in its customer account…