Law Students Push Back Against Mandatory Arbitration

American law students entering on-campus interviews for Big Law summer associate jobs this summer will be armed with one new piece of information: whether firms require associates to sign mandatory arbitration agreements.

Molly Coleman, a rising 2L at Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass., will be paying close attention. She’s part of the reason firms will be disclosing this information at all.

“This will absolutely be a key factor in determining where I decide to interview,” Coleman told Bloomberg Law.

More than 40 law school career services deans signed a letter May 14 asking law firms to complete a short survey ...