Clients may value a lawyer’s “never-say-die” attitude, but US courts faced with unjustifiable attacks on arbitration awards have grown irritable. Mark Kantor, an attorney in Washington, DC and a member of GAR’s editorial board, reports on a recent decision in which a US appeals court ordered lawyers to personally pay costs for an unsuccessful attempt to vacate an award – a painful lesson for aggressive litigators about the strength of the “national policy favoring arbitration”