A Company’s Best Friend – An Effectively-Drafted Arbitration Clause in an IC Agreement: December 2020 News Update
By EsqSocial Corporation 05/01/21
December was a very slow month for court decisions affecting independent contractors, but both decisions reported below confirm that effectively drafted arbitration clauses remain one of two “best friends” for businesses that engage independent contractors. On the very day the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in New Prime Inc. v. Oliveira in January 2019, we predicted here that, despite some commentators’ exuberance and others’ despair, the decision “may have little or no impact as to...
By: Locke Lord LLP