GUEST BLOGGER RICK FREEMAN!
[ed. note: we've asked a number of our colleagues to offer guest-blogs about Texas dispute resolution, and our old friend Rick Freeman is the first to chime in. We look forward to continuing columns...
View ArticleARBITRATION LEGITIMACY — UNCONSCIONABILITY
Guest blogger Rick Freeman contributes commentary about a recent San Antonio Court of Appeals opinion about the enforceability of arbitration clauses. In my last article I discussed the need for...
View ArticleHigh Costs of Arbitration
Rick Freeman Commentary Following up on my article last week regarding the Olshan case – in which the San Antonio Court of Appeals found that the high cost of the required arbitration to be “shocking”...
View ArticleYOU CANNOT WAIVE THE OFFENDING ARBITRATION PROVISION
Rick Freeman Commentary One argument that is regularly made by lawyers who are attempting to compel arbitration is to ask the Court to reform the arbitration clause in some way, if the Court feels that...
View ArticleCOMPELLING NON-SIGNATORIES TO ARBITRATE
By Rick Freeman In a recent article herein, Karl and Rob discussed the recent opinion by the Texas Supreme Court – In re Weekley Homes, L.P. In that decision the Texas Supreme Court compelled a...
View ArticleARBITRATION IS GOD – FIRST INSTALLMENT
by Rick Freeman Two recent decisions by the Texas courts of appeals show how far the Courts have gone in enforcing arbitration agreements – no matter what the facts. In Southwind Group, Inc., v....
View ArticleARBITRATION IS GOD – SECOND INSTALLMENT
By Rick Freeman In IN RE HERITAGE BUILDING SYSTEMS, INC, No. 09-05-445-CV, decided by the Beaumont Court of Appeals on February 9, 2006, we find another decision by the Texas appellate courts that...
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