Williams & Connolly LLP has extensive experience in complex domestic arbitrations under many different arbitration regimes, including before the American Arbitration Association (AAA), JAMS, the National Association of Securities Dealers, the National Basketball Association and the National Football League. The firm represented Coach Larry Brown in an arbitration before NBA Commissioner David Stern involving Coach Brown's employment dispute with the New York Knicks. In late 2006, an arbitration panel of the AAA awarded Williams & Connolly LLP client Southaven Power LLC $400 million in its contractual dispute with PG&E Energy Trading over fuel conversion facilities owned by Southaven that convert natural gas into electricity. The firm also successfully defended a local real estate management company in a $10 million breach-of-contract dispute with a local developer before a panel of AAA arbitrators. For a large internet company, the firm arbitrated a $25 million dispute over a marketing agreement for real estate listings. The firm, in a AAA arbitration, defeated a claim of race discrimination against an automobile dealership franchise. Williams & Connolly lawyers also successfully represented a 92-year-old widow in arbitration against a local brokerage service for wrongful depletion of her husband's $4 million life savings when he suffered from Alzheimer's disease. The firm has significant experience in arbitrating disputes in many other areas of the law as well, and the firm's lawyers bring the same trial and persuasion skills to arbitrations as they do to the courtroom.

Please read International Arbitration for a discussion of our extensive experience in that area.