Report Details Global Reach of U.S. Securities Class Actions [RiskMetrics summarized at AmLaw Litigation Daily] Grim Madoff-clawback portent: in Bayou case $20 million of the $33 million recovered from redeeming investors went to pay legal fees [Bloomberg] Investigative journalism...

The plaintiffs bar, in concert with certain bulk drug buyers (particularly state and local governments), has ginned up a giant campaign demanding damages over drug companies promotion of off-label uses of their compounds. Now Beck Herrmann bring news that...

The Recorder: Oracle, Apple Inc., Yahoo, Intel Corp. and several others are throwing their weight behind Microsoft Corp. as it tries to persuade the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to overturn a $500 million jury verdict for...

More on EFCAs real kicker, compulsory arbitration [Jackson Lewis, h/t Eric B. Meyer] In L.A. and even Boston, billboards now part of the historic-preservation legacy [Katherine Mangu-Ward, Reason] Big Washington Post what-went-wrong-at-AIG series, parts one, two, three, fascinating but...

From the AP: ST. PETERSBURG - Gov. Charlie Crist appointed Cuban-born lawyer Jorge Labarga to the Florida Supreme Court on Friday. Labarga, 56, a state circuit judge who Crist appointed to an appellate court position just last month, was named...

I like Adam's Rib -- and it's one of my wife's favorites (she's a geneticist)....

No, it's not some hypothetical offered by critics of lawsuits against gun manufacturers; it's a real case. From Ashley County v. Pfizer, Inc., decided today by the U.S. Court of...

My father pointed out that this year is the 60th anniversary of the release of Adam's Rib, a movie about a married lawyer couple (played by Spencer Tracy and Katherine...

In the National Journal's latest blogger poll, 56% of left-wing bloggers and 78% of right-wing bloggers believe the U.S. Senate should seat Roland Burris. I voted in the majority on...

On June 18, 1912, Congress passed a law entitled,...