A bill seeking to establish a Texas Institute of Health Care Quality and Efficiency is currently before the Texas Legislature. Senate Bill 8 was authored by Senator Nelson and filed on February 16, 2011. It seeks “to improve health care quality, accountability, and cost containment in this state by encouraging health care provider collaboration, effective health care delivery models, and coordination of health care services.” The bill was referre

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James H. Stark, Professor of Law and Director of the Mediation Clinic at the University of Connecticut School of Law, and Douglas N. Frenkel, Morris M. Schuster Practice Professor of Law and Head of the Mediation Clinic at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law, recently examined empirical research findings on persuasion and its effect on mediation in Changing Minds: The Work of Mediators and Empirical Studies of Persuasion (February 17, 20

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