Partner Jonathan D. Waisnor was featured in Mealey’s Q1 International Arbitration Report, where arbitration experts from around the world discussed the key challenges and opportunities for arbitration in 2025.

In this timely report, Jonathan points to several key challenges that are expected to shape the arbitration landscape in the upcoming year, including adapting to shifting regulatory frameworks and ensuring that any mass arbitration frameworks that are adopted are procedurally fair to claimants without creating undue delays in administration.

While U.S. practitioners "should expect to see continued litigation regarding the scope of mass arbitration procedures, the authority of process arbitrators to determine issues, and the ability of either companies or arbitration administrators to change the rules of the arbitration forum and apply them to pending claims" in 2025, consumer arbitration cases currently remain presumptively unenforceable in the UK.  Jonathan posits that, while "mass arbitration represents a significant departure from traditional UK legal practices," "there is a growing trend in UK courts for parties seeking redress to do so in increasingly larger groups, and the development of an elective mass arbitration model in the UK could provide an alternative adjudication system with similar advantages."