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First rule of arbitration: show up

By Richard Binder

Last month a Los Angeles Superior Court judge affirmed an arbitration award of more than $4.1 billion to Paul Thomas Chester, a former executive at iFreedom Communications Inc. Chester brought wrongful termination suit against his former employer, its affiliated businesses and the founder, Timothy Ringgenberg. The case ended up before William F. McDonald, a retired supervising judge of the Orange County, Calif., Superior Court's complex civil litigation panel, who now works as an arbitrator.

Michael D. Young, a partner in the Los Angeles office of Atlanta's Alston & Bird, speaks to The National Law Journal about the lessons that employment lawyers and their clients could learn from the outcome in this case.

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Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on June 12, 2009 (boomark / email).