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Now three law professors suggest that companies are far less likely to use arbitration clauses in contracts with each other than they are in contracts with consumers.

"I personally like to use arbitration as a vehicle for resolving disputes," said C. Jaye Berger, a Manhattan real estate and construction lawyer.

Other studies address issues that have been debated in the financial industry for years, like proposals over whether individual investors should be required to use arbitration to settle disputes with brokers, rather than having access to the courts.

Mr. Garbus said he felt Mr. Siegel had virtually no chance of winning — not only is the First Amendment a stumbling block, but the Siegels agreed in writing to use arbitration to settle any dispute with Ms. Greenfield.

But now a few automakers are trying to do away with those resources by taking advantage of something consumers have done for decades when buying a vehicle: signing an agreement with the dealer to use arbitration to resolve disputes.

But a new study, to be published in the University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform next year, found that businesses actually use arbitration clauses in major contracts with other businesses less than 10percentt of the time.

She also noted that financial firms had been pioneers in using arbitration, rather than the courts, to settle workplace cases.

Pew has created an interactive graphic to help consumers understand the difference between using arbitration and courts.

The General Accounting Office estimated in 1997 that 19percentt of companies used arbitration to sort out employee grievances, though not all made it mandatory.

"I believe they're really using arbitration as a way of avoiding class action litigation," said Theodore Eisenberg, a law professor at Cornell.

In prior studies, they found that companies used arbitration clauses in just 11percentt of contracts with other companies, Professor Eisenberg said.