“Don’t Put Your Arbitration Award’s Confidentiality At Risk”

Matthew Iverson of Nelson, Mullins has this post, available at Lexology, describing the competing desires to seek vacatur of an unfavorable arbitration award and maintaining the confidentiality of the result. He discusses the Second Circuit’s decision in Stafford v. International Business Machines Corp, where the court held that sealing the award was appropriate when the prevailing party sought to make it public through the confirmation process in order to utilize the award in other litigation matters.