Andrea Kupfer Schneider, Professor of Law at Marquette University Law School, Jill Gross, James D. Hopkins Professor of Law and Director of Legal Skills at Pace Law School, and John Lande, Isidor Loeb Professor of Law at the University of Missouri School of Law have authored “Teaching Students to Be Problem-Solvers and Dispute-Resolvers,” Building on Best Practices: Transforming Legal Education in a Changing World (Deborah Maranville, Lisa Radtke Bliss, Carolyn Wilkes Kaas & Antoinette Sedillo Lopez eds., 2015); Marquette Law School Legal Studies Paper No. 15-04.

Earlier today, the Supreme Court of Texas agreed to consider whether or not an arbitration agreement between a law firm and its former client was one-sided and substantively unconscionable. In the case, In re: Royston Rayzor Vickery & Williams, LLP, No. 14-0109, a man, Lopez, retained a law firm, Royston Rayzor Vickery & Williams, LLP (“Royston”) to represent him in divorce proceedings related to his common law marriage.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has overturned a lower court’s order vacating a portion of an arbitral award. In BNSF Railway Co. v. Alstom Transportation, Inc., No. 13-11274 (5th Cir. Feb. 5, 2015), a railroad company, BNSF, hired another company, Alstom, to manage its locomotive maintenance program.

A Sugar Land nursing home dispute that arose after an elderly resident’s family was banned from a long-term care facility over a number of social media posts has reportedly been ordered to mediation.