New York partner Marshall Babson, a former member of the National Labor Rrelations Board (NLRB), was quoted on January 24 by Westlaw Journal Employment regarding the NLRB's D.R. Horton ruling that employees cannot be required as a condition to sign as a condition of employment agreements barring them from filing class action lawsuits concerning the conditions of their employment.
 
Marshall called the consequences of the ruling "ghastly" and added "It represent the board's thumbing its nose at private arbitration agreements."