Texas Bar Corporate Counsel Section: Out-of-state contractor can enforce Georgia arbitration award in Kentucky: costly lessons on contents of arbitration provision http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=fe7bf180-c321-4d40-a2c5-2403a08de304&utm_source=Lexology+Daily+Newsfeed&utm_medium=HTML+email+-+Body+-+Other+states+section&utm_campaign=State+bar+of+texas+subscriber+daily+feed&utm_content=Lexology+Daily+Newsfeed+2011-04-27&utm_term=
The New Yorker: The Possibilian: What a brush with death taught David Eagleman about the mysteries of time and the brain. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/04/25/110425fa_fact_bilger
There has been much debate in the law and economics literature over the effect of fee shifting rules on settlement. Richard A. Posner and Steven Shavell have concluded that fee shifting of the English “loser pays” type would decrease the likelihood of settlement. They viewed parties as pursuing litigation because they are overly optimistic about their chances at trial, which causes them to discount the amount of attorneys' fees they will have to pay, and thus makes settlement less attractive....
Austin American-Statesman: House sends 'loser pays' bill to Senate http://www.statesman.com/news/texas-politics/house-sends-loser-pays-bill-to-senate-1465302.html
Richard A. Posner (1988): "making the losing party pay the winning party's attorney's fees would reduce, not increase, the settlement rate" 22 Law & Soc'y Rev. 927, 928 (1988)
Texas Bar Corporate Counsel Section: Employer ordered to bargain at least 16 hours a week http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=848bd5f1-04d5-4a6d-ae4b-6e22bb245560&utm_source=Lexology+Daily+Newsfeed&utm_medium=HTML+email+-+Body+-+Federal+section&utm_campaign=State+bar+of+texas+subscriber+daily+feed&utm_content=Lexology+Daily+Newsfeed+2011-04-27&utm_term=
Texas Lawyer Blog: Civil justice reform bill proceeding to final reading in House today http://texaslawyer.typepad.com/texas_lawyer_blog/2011/05/civil-justice-reform-bill-proceeding-to-final-reading-in-house-today.html
Supreme Court of Texas Blog: Waiver of insurance appraisal clauses; stay granted in an(other) employee-arbitration case [May 6, 2011] http://www.scotxblog.com/case-notes/waiver-of-insurance-appraisal-clauses-stay-granted-in-another-employee-arbitration-case-may-6-2011/