Civil Litigation,
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Nov. 6, 2019
Forced arbitration: where Rights go to die
Ballooning corporate power and substantial erosion of the public sphere have caused a yawning chasm between rich and poor. One of the conservative legal architects’ greatest achievements is forced arbitration: the privatization of the public court system coupled with attacks on one of the strongest tools for civil law enforcement — the class action.
Jahan C. Sagafi
Partner
Outten & Golden LLP
1 Embarcadero Center 38th Fl
San Francisco , CA 94111
Phone: (415) 638-8800
Fax: (415) 638-8810
Email: jsagafi@outtengolden.com
Harvard University Law School; Cambridge MA
Jahan runs the firm's San Francisco offices and represents workers in class action challenging wage theft and discrimination. He serves on the boards of Legal Aid at Work, the People's Parity Project, and the San Francisco chapter of the American Constitution Society.
Michelle Erickson
Law Clerk
Outten & Golden
Michelle is a 3L at Stanford Law School.
Concerned with the success of the civil rights and women's rights movements in the 1960s and cultural challenges to corporate power, conservatives in the 1970s planned their legal revolution. In recent decades, this effort has borne fruit. Ballooning corporate power and substantial erosion of the public sphere have caused a yawning chasm between rich and poor. One of the conservative legal architects' greatest achievements is forced arbitration: the privatization of t...
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