The question then arises as to the status and effect of relationships, not only between the arbitrator and a party directly, but between the arbitrator's law firm or university, and the parties or their counsel. Many arbitrators from law firms complain that they are unfairly precluded from sitting as arbitrators where another partner in their firm (often someone they do not know in a satellite office) represents or formerly represented a company in the same corporate group as one of the parties to the dispute.