Merger Committee Arbitration
It must be fantastic to be a union attorney! These briefs (and the $ billing) just go on and on and on.
For the west, a much better showing I thought in terms of the brief itself. It felt more square to the issues.
USAPA seriously has lawyers lawyers, procedural wizards. The merits take a back seat a bit to procedure and law - I thought well done there. They really do string things together nicely, and in law the procedure can win, so that's no knock on them.
My gut - this goes very much west's way (for once).
But seriously, who has time / interest to write these briefs on these issues, I'd go nuts! I felt like they all could be summarized in 3-5 pages.
And I don't know if the composition of the west legal team changed, but this set of arguments on the west side really flowed much more smoothly.
The first in a long set of steps to get the list settled down. I'm sure more to come. Just wishing the whole thing would move along faster..