Harris v. SAL Financial Services, Inc.

Adams, Judge.

We granted an interlocutory appeal to review the trial court’s order granting the motion of defendant/appellee SAL Financial Services, Inc. (“SAL”) to compel arbitration and stay proceedings in the trial court. We now conclude that the trial court erred in determining that an arbitrator, and not the court, should determine whether the arbitration provision at issue in this case is enforceable, and reverse and remand this case for reconsideration in light of this opinion.

The facts underlying this appeal are as follows: Charles Warren Jordan hired J. Houston Lennard, an attorney,…