Departing chief judge Judith Kaye won plaudits for some pioneering steps to improve the efficiency of court administration in New York, but it sounds from Eric Turkewitz as if theres a long, long way to go....

Per AmLaw Daily, environmental lawyers are demanding that Detroit drop its aggressive litigation challenge to state tailpipe emissions standards if it wants a bailout. Not to give anyone ideas, but can it be long before the trial lawyers jump in...

Sorry, docs: new health czar Daschle is a longtime trial lawyer ally [Overlawyered] Union-backed ad campaign for EFCA begins; just what economy needs now, business-labor Armageddon [L.A. Times] As electronic discovery proliferates, so do tactical allegations of spoliation, often...

Popped collars, it seems, have consequences.

Continuing technical problems at my other site, Overlawyered, have kept it mostly down since yesterday. Some readers can reach the site by omitting the www prefix from the URL, others cant reach it at all. Thanks for your patience as...

Jim's excellent post notes one-half of the argument against a Detroit bailout--that it is an unusually bad case for a bailout because of the need for long-term structural reform that...

It's hard to remember now, but back in the spring and summer, some libertarians were optimistic about Bob Barr's presidential campaign under the Libertarian Party banner. Barr's eventual failure exemplifies the...

The New York Times reports:...

Reason's Brian Doherty, has an excellent article telling the fascinating story of the origins of the lawsuit that eventually resulted in the Supreme Court's decision in District of Columbia v....

Polls routinely show that most Americans give very low approval ratings to Congress as a whole, but give much higher ratings to their own representatives. Count me among the...