“The Case for a Two-Arbitrator Panel”

Here’s an interesting take on the optimal size for an arbitration panel, at least in certain cases. This article by Gregory Parent of Miles Mediation & Arbitration, available at JD Supra, advocates for a two person panel as offering cost and time savings over the traditional multi-member panel of three, while suggesting that the panel’s desire to forge consensus advances the goal of avoiding the risk of a well-intentioned but perhaps misguided single arbitrator.