Zach has extensive experience in all aspects of the arbitration process. He has tried hundreds of labor arbitration cases during his career as a traditional labor lawyer, involving one day hearings as well as long and complex cases, and understands the challenges of the neutral role completely. Zach has tried numerous arbitration cases involving statutory and contractual claims, representing both plaintiffs and defendants. He has frequently litigated arbitration issues in the courts, and is completely familiar with due process protocols and the procedural rules of various tribunals that often administer arbitration proceedings.
He became interested in whether labor arbitration could be adapted to statutory claims while still in law school, where he worked on these and other significant issues with Professor (later Circuit Court Judge) Harry T. Edwards. He has spoken and written extensively on these issues, and designed appropriate and lawful arbitration processes to deal with statutory and contractual claims. He is fully familiar with both procedural and substantive issues in arbitration, and has taught arbitration-related law to members of the federal judiciary through the Federal Judicial Center and the New York University Law School Center for Labor and Employment law, where he was a long-time member of the Advisory Board. He has also spoken, written about, and litigated the cutting edge issue of class and collective actions in arbitration.