Why In-House Counsel Must Drive the Arbitrator Selection Call

Your team spent weeks — maybe months — negotiating an important transaction. Someone, possibly not the deal lawyers, chose arbitration over the courts as a last-minute clause just before signing.

Now a dispute has arisen, arbitration is looming, it may last more than a year at significant cost, and you must select an arbitrator. Outside counsel will present candidates, and your instinct may be to defer entirely to them. Don't.

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