In recent years, Austin, Miami, Seattle, and Denver have emerged as some of the top cities in the nation in which to launch a new startup or other business. Each city reportedly hosts a number of international conventions geared towards entrepreneurs. Although many such business persons may find themselves focused on the technology or creative aspects of their new companies, it is important for entrepreneurs to maintain the right legal framework in which to protect any intellectual property or other rights.

Imre S. Szalai, Associate Professor of Law at the Loyola University New Orleans College of Law has written “A Constitutional Right to Discovery? Creating and Reinforcing Due Process Norms Through the Procedural Laboratory of Arbitration,” Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal, Forthcoming.

Texas’ Fifth District Court of Appeals in Dallas has ruled that a trial court abused its discretion when it refused to allow a party to a lawsuit to engage in discovery over an arbitrator’s purported evident partiality.

In Part Fourteen, we discussed a program in California state courts that makes regular use of special masters in construction cases. So who else is making regular use of alternate dispute resolution talent?