Two unpublished arbitration opinions this month illustrate the value of Appellate Division decisions to the legal community generally, beyond the directly affected parties. We compliment legal publications for continuing to write about these decisions, in articles and in the "Daily Decision Alert" or similar columns, even though they are not precedential under our rules. The fact is, they provide a useful reminder—if not first impression notice—of quotidian aspects of legal practice.

In their fourth visit to the Appellate Division, the parties in Associated Asphalt Partners, LLC v. Asphalt Paving Systems, Inc. experienced the added time and expense of litigation when the arbitrator they had chosen to hear the dispute died.