Matthew H. Adler Quoted in Law360 Article, 'Rebalancing Court Role in Arbitration Not Needed, Attys Say'
Matthew H. Adler, a partner with Pepper Hamilton, chair of the firm's International and Domestic Arbitration Practice Group and a co-chair of the Commercial Litigation Practice Group, was quoted in the April 18, 2016 Law360 Article, "Rebalancing Court Role in Arbitration Not Needed, Attys Say."
Pepper Hamilton LLP partner Matt Adler agreed, saying that while that might be the case in England, it doesn't seem to be happening here.
"I don't think it's happening in the U.S. because I don't think that there's such a drain on the U.S. court system as a result of arbitration that our courts lack for interesting cases," he said. "Could
it become one as more and more disputes go to arbitration? I suppose so, but I don't see it."
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Moreover, according to Adler, the argument that the law remains unpredictable or underdeveloped comes up short considering that parties choose over and over again to incorporate English law into their contracts.
"From the standpoint of my clients, who are parties to an arbitration, the law is developing just fine, and they're demonstrating that in their dispute resolution clause when they pick law," he said. "My clients
are going to pick Delaware law, New York law, English law — they're going to pick a predictable body of commercial law."
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