How Does Someone Qualify to be an Arbitrator in a Las Vegas Personal Injury Case?

Las Vegas car accident cases that are valued at $50,000.00 or less, are funneled through Clark County, Nevada’s mandatory arbitration program. In this special arbitration program, a private judge is assigned to your case. What qualifies someone to act as the private judge in your personal injury case?

First, the arbitrator must have a minimum of 8 years of experience as a licensed Nevada attorney, a member of the American Arbitration Association, or a professional with a law degree who has been working in their field for the minimum time requirement of 8 years.
 
Once this threshold minimum of 8 years of legal or arbitration experience is established, the potential arbitrator will then undergo a thorough background check. The background check is done to ensure that no one with a serious criminal history or questionable disciplinary record is on the panel.

If selected, the potential arbitrator must also complete an arbitration training program, to fully prepare them to act as arbitrators in Las Vegas personal injury cases. Once sworn in, the arbitrator is then subject to the same high ethical standards as set forth in the Nevada Code of Judicial Conduct.

Next time, we will discuss how the normal discovery rules are altered in a Las Vegas arbitration case.