The mandatory arbitration clauses that 61% of the nation’s 15,000 registered investment advisor firms require clients to sign benefit advisors over investors, SEC staff said in a new report sent to ...

Following its warning against predatory lawyers on Tuesday, March 17th, Houston-based organization Stop Legal Bullying Now, LLC is also cautioning Texas citizens about mandatory arbitration clauses ...

Registered Investment Advisors (RIAs) were the focus of a recent SEC Investor Advisory Committee meeting over mandatory arbitration provisions. Legal professionals, investor advocates, and government ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has announced that it is seeking comments on proposed rules to prohibit mandatory arbitration clauses that the regulator claims would “deny groups of ...

Brokers often are criticized for demanding that the contracts they sign with customers contain mandatory arbitration clauses, but registered investment advisers increasingly are doing the same thing, ...

For years, lawmakers have been trying to eliminate mandatory arbitration clauses in legal agreements covering consumer, employment, antitrust and civil rights claims, as well as agreements between ...

Amid pressure from the digital media company's staff union, Vox Media CEO Jim Bankoff told employees on Tuesday that the company will not enforce existing mandatory arbitration clauses in employment ...

Investor advocates are cheering an attempt to place stricter limits on how RIAs can use arbitration to resolve client disputes. But amid the current atmosphere of deregulation, arbitration reform may ...

Florida recently became the first state to adopt a law that makes the mandatory arbitration clauses in trust documents truly mandatory. This landmark legislation has the potential to provide a ...

A hot issue percolating among the states is whether a clause in a will or trust requiringalternative dispute resolution — usually arbitration — should be enforced by the courts. While initially courts ...