Todd E. Soloway and Bryan T. Mohler explain that although arbitration clauses are widely favored and commonly used, courts will narrowly construe their scope. Explicit drafting can avoid unintended litigation.

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When Paul Ormond signed John Mitchell into a nursing home in Dennis, Mass., in June, he was handed a few dozen pages of admission papers. Ormond, Mitchell’s legal guardian and an old friend, signed wherever the director of admissions told him to.

Arbitration works when two parties who are experiencing legal conflict select a neutral third party to represent them. The impartial representative is called an arbitrator. Both parties present their case and evidence before one or more of these impartial ...

Since I became a lawyer in 1989, the use of arbitration as a dispute resolution technique has skyrocketed, and it is increasingly rare these days to find a contract that does not have an arbitration clause. Indeed, arbitration has become something akin to ...

The more evidence you have of the deed’s true purpose (for example, stating that it’s a security arrangement or conditional transfer), the easier it will be to resolve any dispute, whether in arbitration or court.