Checklist for Drafting Arbitration Clauses

• Author: David A. Allgeyer
• Pages: 145-147

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Checklist for Drafting

Arbitration Clauses

❒Administered or nonadministered?

❒If administered, start with the organization’s standard

clause (see Chapter 1 for benef‌its of administration).

❒If nonadministered, start with a similar clause, but

omit administration and consider use of à la carte admin-

istration for arbitrator selection and resolution of disputes

concerning impartiality (e.g., AAA procedures at adr.org).

❒Specify the place of arbitration (consider opposing parties’

city for party initiating arbitration, or a neutral location).

❒Specify the number of arbitrators (consider single arbitrator

unless demand is over $X).

❒Specify law that applies unless specif‌ied elsewhere in the

contract.

❒Specify use of arbitration organization’s supplementary pat-

ent rules.

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