Mass Arbitration: Processing Claims, Managing and Securing Information, Resolving Underlying Disputes

Kyle Tayman is speaking as a panelist on a CLE course that will guide class action counsel through the logistics and considerations of managing hundreds or thousands of similar individual arbitration proceedings filed against a defendant alleging the same or similar claims.

In recent years, businesses that enter into arbitration agreements with customers and workers have seen a rapid uptick in the number of mass arbitrations. Claimants' counsel will often file thousands (or tens or hundreds of thousands) of simultaneous demands for individual arbitration. Counsel must have multiple strategies at work, including procedures for receiving and analyzing each claim, managing a deluge of information, raising any arbitrability disputes, and litigating the merits.