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....

AmLaw Daily has some further updates on the high-stakes tobacco proceedings previewed by Prof. Krauss in this space last week. Further background here....

Jonathan Adler is still patiently at it, trying to calm the hysteria....

Britain has been extensively Americanizing its litigation system for two decades, introducing conditional fees and other spurs to entrepreneurial lawyering, mass litigation formats, higher damage payouts, wider use of discovery, and so forth. And now: A senior judge has been...

Feds indict six on charges of scheme to siphon $40 million from Cendant, Bank of America and NASDAQ class action settlements through filing of false claims [Alibaba, Karlsgodt] Sovereign immunity? Never heard of it: Sixth Circuit rules Vatican can...

Via Althouse and Reynolds, comes an odd N.Y. Times essay by Lauren Slater. What I found slightly disturbing was not the overall argument about her disinterest in sex,...

list is now up, and we're of course delighted to be included. The ABA Journal people are soliciting reader votes for the favorite blogs in each category....

University of San Diego lawprof Michael Rappaport has a thoughtful response to my post arguing that pro-gay marriage court decisions advance gay rights despite the fact that they have...

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A small victory, but a victory nonetheless, for my friend, fellow Kozinski clerk, and former UCLA colleague Victor Fleischer. Congratulations!...