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....
AmLaw Daily has some further updates on the high-stakes tobacco proceedings previewed by Prof. Krauss in this space last week. Further background here....
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...
Today the Supreme Court handed down a decision in Hedgpeth v. Pulido on the standard for reviewing errors in jury instructions: Should such errors be subject to harmless error review...