Description
Lead and manage arbitration proceedings to resolve labor and employment disputes; advise stakeholders, prepare cases, coordinate hearings, and ensure compliance with awards and collective bargaining agreements.
- • Advise management and counsel on arbitration strategies, contract interpretations, and discipline or grievance cases likely to proceed to arbitration.
- • Confer with unions, outside counsel, and arbitrators to scope issues, schedules, and procedural rules for arbitration.
- • Draft arbitration demands, responses, briefs, and settlement proposals.
- • Develop and standardize internal arbitration protocols, case intake criteria, and document retention procedures.
- • Identify settlement options and alternative dispute resolution paths to avoid or narrow arbitration.
- • Interpret collective bargaining agreements and policies to frame issues and remedies in arbitration.
- • Evaluate grievances and potential cases for arbitrability, evidentiary strength, and risk.
- • Facilitate pre-hearing conferences and mediations to resolve disputes prior to award.
- • Monitor compliance with arbitration awards and stipulated settlements.
- • Negotiate settlements in arbitration and pre-arbitration stages.
- • Prepare required filings such as arbitration demands, case initiation forms, and post-award reports.
- • Prepare case status reports, metrics, and trend analyses for leadership.
- • Present cases, witnesses, and exhibits during arbitration hearings.
- • Propose settlement frameworks or remedy options consistent with precedent and policy.
- • Recommend arbitration and settlement strategies, goals, and decision criteria.
- • Review disciplinary cases for procedural due process and defensibility in arbitration.
- • Review practices and records to substantiate contract compliance in arbitration matters.
- • Schedule and coordinate arbitration hearings, logistics, and witness preparation.
- • Draft correspondence to arbitrators, opposing parties, and stakeholders regarding issues, timelines, and clarifications.
- • Assess litigation and financial risk associated with pursuing arbitration versus settlement.
- • Assess operational impact of potential awards or settlements.
- • Develop training materials and playbooks for arbitration preparation and testimony.
- • Build methods to track arbitration outcomes, cycle time, costs, and compliance.
- • Prepare evidence, exhibits, and witnesses for arbitration hearings.
- • Provide subject-matter expertise and testimony on contract interpretation and past practice, as needed.
- • Research arbitral precedent, case law, and past awards to support arguments.
- • Recommend or select arbitrators or mediators from panels and manage conflicts of interest.
- • Train managers and HR on arbitration readiness, documentation standards, and hearing protocol.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
