Arbitration 2022: Recent Directives From the U.S. Supreme Court, Questions Resolved, Challenges Revealed

Mark J. Levin is a senior counsel at Ballard Spahr LLP and a member of the firm’s Consumer Financial Services Group and Litigation Department. His practice is focused on consumer financial services litigation, and he has extensive experience in the structuring and enforcement of consumer arbitration clauses and the defense of financial services companies in consumer class actions.  Mr. Levin has enforced consumer arbitration agreements with class action waivers in the U.S. Supreme Court and numerous federal and state appellate and trial courts and has tried both individual and class arbitrations.  He testified for the industry before a subcommittee of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee at an oversight hearing on whether predispute arbitration provisions in consumer contracts are fair to consumers. Mr. Levin has published more than 50 articles on consumer arbitration including, for each of the past 25 years, an update on important arbitration law developments for The Business Lawyer’s annual survey. 

Ms. Richman is head of the Washington, DC office and focuses her practice on international dispute resolution matters, with a particular emphasis on international commercial arbitration and public international law. She has experience representing clients in a broad range of matters, including in the areas of international commercial and investment arbitrations, securities enforcement, securities litigation, general commercial litigation disputes, and insurance coverage.

Mr. Hurd has extensive trial and appellate experience, in both federal and state courts focusing on claims of alleged individual and class discrimination, sexual harassment, wage and hour violations, FINRA, whistleblowing and retaliation, defamation, fraud, breach of contract, wrongful discharge and other statutory and common law claims. He also advises clients on employment litigation avoidance, litigation strategy and alternative forms of dispute resolution. Mr. Hurd also handles matters involving drafting, enforcing, and defending restrictive covenants, and protecting trade secrets.