(a) Before First Hearing Session Begins
Before the first hearing session begins, the Director may remove an arbitrator for conflict of interest or bias, either upon request of a party or on the Director's own initiative.
(1) The Director will grant a party's request to remove an arbitrator if it is reasonable to infer, based on information known at the time of the request,
(a) Party Portal
(1) Parties must use the Party Portal to file initial statements of claim and to file and serve pleadings and any other documents on the Director or any other party except as provided in paragraphs (a)(2) and (a)(3). The Director may exercise authority to permit the use of other means of filing or service in the case of an extended Party Portal outage or in other
(a) Respondent(s) must serve each other party with the following documents within 45 days of receipt of the statement of claim:
(1) Signed and dated Submission Agreement; and
(2) An answer specifying the relevant facts and available defenses to the statement of claim.
The respondent may include any additional documents supporting the answer to the statement of claim. Parties that
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SummaryFINRA has amended its Codes of Arbitration Procedure (Codes) to make: (1) changes to the arbitrator list selection process in response to recommendations in the report of independent counsel Lowenstein Sandler LLP (Report) and (2) clarifying and technical changes to requirements in the Codes for holding prehearing conferences and hearing sessions, initiating and responding to claims,
(a) Composition of Panels
The arbitrator will be a public arbitrator selected from the public chairperson roster, unless the parties agree in writing otherwise.
(b) Generating Lists
(1) The list selection algorithm will generate a list of 10 public arbitrators from the FINRA chairperson roster.
(2) The list selection algorithm will exclude arbitrators from the lists based upon current
