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Talking Mental Health: Managing Depression as a Co. Founder, Law360

In a contributed column to Law360, New Era Chairman and Co-Founder Collin Williams shares insights from his mental health journey and recovery. In a personal and candid look back at where he’s been and the resources that have helped, Collin shares how his challenges have shaped his career, his leadership style, and his commitment to advocating for mental health in the legal industry.

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Why Justices Should Rule on FAA’s Commerce Exception, Law360

Collin Williams, Chairman and Co-Founder of New Era ADR, authored an article for Law360 that evaluates the March 2024 opinion of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Adan Ortiz v. Randstad Inhouse Services LLC and Adan Ortiz v. XPO Logistics Inc. The case, which will make its way through the appeals process and possibly to the U.S. Supreme Court, has the potential to clarify an age-old question about whether workers involved in foreign or interstate commerce are exempt from the Federal Arbitration Act

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Arbitration Can Be Tailored to Meet Litigants’ Needs, Daily Journal

In an article published by the Daily Journal, New Era Co-Founder and CEO Rich Lee joins Adam Pollock, Co-Founder of Pollock Cohen LLP in New York, for a look at how arbitration providers and participants can develop rules that limit discovery, allow parties to select arbitrators, and ensure that the process is efficient, pragmatic, and transparent.

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Resolving Litigation: Arbitration and Mediation After ‘Concepcion,” Law.com

In our ongoing Resolving Litigation series in Law.com, New Era Co-Founder and CEO Rich Lee talks with Seamus Duffy, a bet-the-company litigator who played a key and early role in the matter that led to a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision regarding arbitration. Seamus, then with Drinker, Biddle & Reath (now Faegre Drinker), represented AT&T Mobility in lower court proceedings that led to the high court’s 2011 ruling in AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion. The 5-4 court majority struck down a California law that banned arbitration agreements that would disallow class actions, holding that such laws were preempted by the Federal Arbitration Act of 1925.

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