Retainer agreements are often used by attorneys to establish a formal relationship with clients. However, retainers can be used in almost any industry and are particularly useful to consultants and ...

The Eight Circuit has rejected a plaintiff’s claim that an arbitration clause in a retainer agreement she signed with a law firm after receiving a call from a purported agent of the firm informing her ...

Should lawyers go into great detail in explaining an arbitration provision in a retainer agreement to clients in order for it to be enforceable? In Delaney v. Dickey, a unanimous New Jersey Supreme ...

When our Supreme Court recently visited the propriety of a provision in an attorney's retainer agreement that binds client and attorney to arbitrate any dispute arising out of the attorney's ...