Bognanno and Coleman offer the most comprehensive, current, and valuable work on arbitrators and their professional practice. The contributors to this volume describe paths of career entry, compensation, demographics, market conditions facing arbitrators, and caseloads. The empirically based findings are drawn from a representative sampling of all the nation's arbitrators and afford a previously unavailable picture. The reader gains important insights into these decisionmakers' backgrounds, career development, arbital experiences, and aspirations.This work is especially important because many of the arbitrators' characteristics, which are captured and described herein, are seen to be enduring or open only to change over an extended time period. The material, fascinating in its detailed analysis of a vital but surprisingly unstudied profession, presents a rich analysis of an occupation that has played a societal role of major significance from earliest times. A work, accordingly, of widespread interest and value relating to the ever fertile fields of dispute resolution.

This book offers the most exhaustively researched work on arbitrators and their practice. Explored are the patterns within the career field and the importance of the backgrounds arbitration professionals bring to their practice. Avenues of career entry, earnings, market conditions, demographics, and caseloads are described.

PrefaceIntroduction to the NAA Survey by Clifford E. SmithThe Varied Portraits of the Labor Arbitrator by Charles J. Coleman and Perry A. ZirkelMembers of the National Academy of Arbitrators: Are They Different from Non-Academy Arbitrators? by William H. Holley, Jr.Entry and Acceptability in the Arbitration Profession: A Long Way To Go by Joseph KrislovThe Arbitrator's Cases: Number, Sources, Issues, and Implications by Charles J. ColemanFeast or Famine: Critical Differences in Arbitration Earnings by Mario F. BognannoSurplus or Shortage in the Market for Arbitration Services: NAA Membership Status, Work Status, and Geographic Dimensions by Mario F. Bognanno and Clifford E. SmithThe NAA Study: Summation and Conclusions by Mario F. Bognanno and Charles J. ColemanAppendix I: QuestionnaireAppendix II: Administrative Agencies Contacted for List of ArbitratorsIndex