The Manhattan Institute Center for Legal Policy today released a report by senior fellow Marie Gryphon, Greater Justice, Lower Cost: How a Loser Pays Rule Would Improve the American Legal System. The report concludes: The United States pays a high...

Some humorous support of the Manhattan Institutes (and Marie Gryphons) superb new study on legal fees comes from the Washington Examiners editorial page editor, who says we lawyers have a lot to learn from the denizens of sports bars. Good...

Not too long ago it was still a relatively novel idea for large law firms to sponsor or otherwise sanction blogging by their member lawyers or allied professionals. Now GeekLawBlog has a running total of 141 such blogs from 56...

In a stinging rebuke to a small army of progressive American academics, journalists, foundation grantmakers, and others whove promoted the case for years, a San Francisco jury has cleared the Chevron Corporation of all liability in the civil suit filed...

Reminder: Ill be on a morning panel discussion tomorrow sponsored by the Manhattan Institute to discuss Marie Gryphons new paper on loser-pays reform. Details here....

Readers in the Philadelphia area may be interested to know that I will be giving a speech tomorrow for the University of Pennsylvania Libertarians at 8:30 PM in Houston Hall, Rm....

Thanks Eugene, for inviting me to join the conspiracy – and thanks to those who welcomed me in advance of my actually doing anything to deserve such treatment. To be...

As I noted below, the forewoman in the Lori Drew case has been speaking to the press. Here's what she told Kim Zetter of Wired:...

The transcript is here. The most interesting part -- and also the part that has drawn the most press attention -- is the discussion of the role of intelligence failures...

Such a pardon would be a generous Christmas gift to the Obama administration, which appears to want to avoid prosecutions. It would greatly disappoint a lot of Obama supporters, but...