The Arbitration Society of England and Wales, Ltd., a name born of the fact that the law of England and Wales (a.k.a. English common law) is the foundation upon which most of the world's advanced legal systems are premised, is a start-up company founded by Benjamin Guez, Esq., an attorney in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mr. Guez is a former staff member at one of the world's largest law firms - DLA Piper. Realizing that modern day arbitration proceedings have devolved into as expensive and lengthy, if not more expensive and lengthy, as traditional court proceedings, the ASEW seeks to re-modernize the field of domestic and international arbitration by dramatically reducing the unnecessary expense and delay currently associated with arbitration proceedings.
Lawsuits are generally a lose-lose proposition for parties in dispute. By way of illustration, it is not unusual in common law countries to have the costs of narrow preliminary issues prior to a final hearing exceed $1 million. It is not unusual for a court to devote a week to simple legal issues that should be resolved in the span of an hour, were the court conversant or experienced on a particular issue of law. The cost of a traditional single hearing spanning 3 to 5 days can easily exceed 100,000 GBP. Moreover, the current trend toward paying three arbitrators to achieve the same result that a single arbitrator can provide, at one-third the costs, benefits no one.
The philosophy of Attorney Guez on dispute resolution is that it does not have to be this way, especially where parties are free to choose their dispute resolution forum. With a close and impartial eye on every Notice of Arbitration that is submitted to ASEW, we match an arbitrator's background to each and every dispute, optimizing the resolution process. Further, via the use of international satellite offices and access to video telecommunications services, ASEW is always in a position to provide efficient and cost-effective services for international arbitration proceedings. ASEW is not an arbitrator, but rather a private company that administers arbitration by matching arbitrators to particular disputes.