The lawyers worked without pay, and as part of the settlement have now agreed to submit to arbitration rather than insist on a share of the money the states will receive, which is what the contracts they signed with many state governments would have given them.

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Right now, if you have a broker dispute, you have to submit to mandatory arbitration run by the securities industry.

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"If there is a real dispute...they will have to submit it to the Court of Arbitration, " said Andreas Herren.

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