A Conversation with Jon Smollen, Temple Law Practice Professor and Director, Temple Center for Compliance and Ethics

This is the first in what we hope will become a regular series of interviews with members of the Temple business law community about their work, the business law community, and business law practice generally.  Jon Smollen directs Temple’s Center for Compliance and Ethics (CCE), and recently sat down with The 10-Q’s editors to talk

First Circuit: Online Arbitration Agreement Must Be “Reasonably Communicated and Accepted”

Ruling in a class action brought against Uber Technologies, Inc., the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit recently held that the company’s arbitration clause could not be enforced because it was not “reasonably communicated” to its customers during the online contracting process. The decision is a stark reminder that great attention needs to