Professor Thomas J. Stipanowich, William H. Webster Chair in Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University School of Law and Academic Director of the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, has written Soft Law in the Organization and General Conduct of Commercial Arbitration Proceedings, Chapter in, SOFT LAW IN INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION (forthcoming 2014); Pepperdine University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2014/4.

Texas’ Fifth District Court of Appeals in Dallas has affirmed a lower court’s decision stating an agreement to arbitrate existed between two cellular network technology companies.

Paul M. Lurie, Partner at Schiff Hardin LLP, and Sharon Press, Professor at Hamline University School of Law, have published Protecting Confidential Information in Commercial Mediations, Dispute Resolution Magazine, p. 40 (Winter 2014 Forthcoming).

A federal appellate court in New York has reportedly ordered a dispute between United Healthcare and two county medical societies to mediation. The lawsuit arose in October 2013 after the insurer removed thousands of doctors in Connecticut and other states from its Medicare Advantage network.