183059P.pdf   10/23/2019  Jerri Plummer  v.  Rhett McSweeney
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  18-3059
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Little Rock   
   [PUBLISHED] [Arnold, Author, with Gruender and Grasz, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - Arbitration. The district court erred in denying defendant's 
   motion to compel arbitration; the defendant's offer to pay plaintiff's 
   share of the costs of arbitration has cured any substantive 
   unconscionability that the attorney-client retainer agreement may have 
   contained; this offer also cured any question that the agreement was 
   substantively unconscionable because it, in effect, only allowed defendant 
   to obtain redress of claims; the district court also erred in finding 
   procedural unconscionability because plaintiff had meaningful choice as to 
   whether to sign the retainer agreement, the agreement stated she had 
   freedom to contract and any argument that she could not have negotiated 
   other terms with the defendant was speculative; the language in the 
   agreement adequately disclosed the consequences of the arbitration 
   provision and did not violate D.C. Circuit case law on an attorney's 
   ethical obligations in these situations.