[brief] [...] AND KASSIDY GREGORY  [...]  [...] [...]  Phone: [...]  [...]  Attorneys for Respondents  Actalent Scientific, LLC and [...]  TABLE OF CONTENTS  TABLE OF CITATIONS  ........................................................................................................ iv  PRELIMINARY STATEMENT .................................................................................................1  PROCEDURAL HISTORY ......................................................................................................4  STATEMENT OF FACTS .......................................................................................................5  ARGUMENT ..........................................................................................................................9  I.  The proper standard of review in this appeal is de novo; principles and procedures applicable to summary-judgment proceedings are inapposite.........................................................................................................................9  II.  The Mutual Arbitration Agreement that [...] knowingly and voluntarily signed was valid and enforceable, and the trial court properly dismissed this action without prejudice and referred it to arbitration.  .........................................................................................................................12  A.  New Jersey law favors arbitration.  .............................................................................13  B.  A valid and enforceable agreement to arbitrate existed here, as the trial court properly found.........................................................................................................................15  C.  The Agreement here covered the full scope of [...]’s employment-related, LAD/discrimination claims.  .........................................................20  III.  [...]’s arguments for reversal all fail.  .................................................................23  A.  Courts have roundly rejected [...]’s argument that her claims are exempt from arbitration.........................................................................................................................24  B.  [...]’s self-serving, post-fact claim she did not knowingly and voluntarily agree to arbitration does not defeat the effect of her assent to the Mutual Arbitration Agreement.........................................................................................................................30  C.  The Agreement was not unconscionable.  ....................................................................34  D.  The arbitration agreement applies equally with respect to Respondents [...] and [...].........................................................................................................................42  E.  [...]’s assertion that the trial court should have provided more in its “statement of reasons” it provided as a basis for remand is without merit and unsupported.........................................................43  F.  [...]’s alternative request for remand for a plenary hearing must be rejected.  .........................................................47  CONCLUSION