Legal Opinion · Dissent
Ferrer v. Preston
California Court of Appeal
Decided November 30, 2006No. B188997Published
1Dissent
VOGEL, J., Dissenting.
When a former judge and a lawyer enter a contract in which they agree that any dispute about that contract will be resolved by arbitration, I think they ought to be bound by that agreement.
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On March 7, 2002, Arnold M. Preston (a lawyer) and Alex E. Ferrer (a former lawyer and former Florida trial judge who now decides cases for a television series, Judge Alex) signed a six-page “Personal Management Agreement” in which Ferrer agreed to pay Preston 12 percent of his earnings from Judge Alex in consideration for Preston’s services as a personal *449manager, and to arbitrate any…
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