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What is Arbitration? Arbitration is like court for the financial world. It is used to settle disputes between investors and their brokers. An investor can file a claim that leads arbitration, much like a lawsuit would lead to a court hearing.

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finance a la shmoop what is arbitration? was it Shakespeare who mused about [Shakespeare on stage discussing arbitration]
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killing all the lawyers, wasn't that Henry the sixth or something mmm well if he
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done so well that'd make arbitration not necessary...So first what is arbitration?
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well basically it's the adjudication of a case outside of the formal normal
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court system which is massively clogged in the United States like it needs a [Man unclogging toilet]

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million gallon enema kind of clogged... The cost of fully adjudicating cases has
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become astronomically expensive and time-consuming and filled with silly [Contract loopholes highlighted]
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loopholes that make getting to a real just conclusion painful if not
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impossible so it has become common practice for parties entering a
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partnership or a contract in whatever form to agree to arbitration if a big
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fat hairy conflict arises down the road you know...In arbitration both sides agree [A hairy monster appears in the woods]
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to hiring a separate judge usually a retired judge from the normal court
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system.. In arbitration
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everyone simply relies on the arbitrating judge to be fair lots of [Judge stamped fair]
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silly loopholes go away and "justice" in whatever form is
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arrived at well hopefully faster and if that doesn't work well you can always do [Shakespear carrying a lawyer on a ship and throws him overboard]
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things to Shakespeare way...
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