2007 ABA Annual Meeting (San Francisco, CA)

The documents below are written materials from the 2007 ABA Annual Meeting. All files are available in PDF format unless otherwise noted. ( )

Hiding the Ball: Preparing Experts’ Reports

• »  Hiding the Ball: Preparing Experts’ Reports

The Roberts Court – Where It’s Been and Where It’s Going

• »  New Beginnings and Dead Ends in the Law of Democracy

Deepening Insolvency – Contours of a “New” Tort

• »  Deepening Insolvency and Lender Liability
• »  The Theory of Deepening Insolvency

Lying Clients and Untruthful Witnesses

• »  The Case of the Lying Client: How to Meet Your Ethical Obligations When – Heaven Forbid – Your Client Fails to Tell the Truth

Baseball, BALCO and The First Amendment

• »  Opening Brief of Appellants Mark Fainaru-Wada, Lance Willams and the San Francisco Chronicle
• »  Order Denying Chronicle’s Motion to Quash Subpoenas
• »  Article: Track Star’s Testimony Link Bonds to Steroid Use; Montgomery Said BALCO Owner Named Slugger (June 2004)
• »  Article: Giambi Admitted Taking Steroids (December 2004)
• »  Article: Slugger Testified Bonds Told Him to Use ‘the Cream’ and ‘the Clear,’ Saying, ‘Don’t Ask Any Questions, Just Trust Me’ (December 2004)
• »  Article: What Bonds Told BALCO Grand Jury (December 2004)

Math for Lawyers

• »  How to Accurately Determine and Demonstrate the Reasonable Settlement Value of Your Case
• »  Robert E. Schaberg Litigation Budget Template

Point-Counterpoint: Practical Advice from Practical Lawyers

• »  50 Tips for Being a Better Lawyer

When the Public Judges its Judges: Fallout from Controversial Decisions

• »  The “Permanent Campaign” Against America’s Courts

Guantanamo and the Rule of Law in Time of War

• »  You Have the Bodies

Same-Sex, Same Rights?

• »  Same Sex Same Rights?

The Litigation Quiz Show

• »  Dealing With Dilemmas
• »  Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
• »  Cowboy Ethics on the Main Line
• »  Officer of the Court

The New Age of Corporate Investigations

• »  Overview: Initiating an Internal Investigation and Assembling the Investigative Team

An Argument by Any Other Name: How to “Argue” Permissibly in Opening Statements

• »  The Trial Lawyer – What it Takes to Win

General Counsel Under Attack

• »  The Sarbanes Oxley Act: Lessons for Private Companies
• »  Conducting Internal Investigations: What to Do and Not Do
• »  Personal Liability for In-House Counsel: Caught Between the Golden Handshake and the Steel Handcuffs

Switch Hitting? Ethical Implications of Advance Conflict Waivers

• »  Switch Hitting?: Ethical Implications of Advance Conflict Waivers

The Next Frontier: The Admissibility of Electronic Evidence

• »  The Next Frontier: Admissibility of Electronic Evidence

General Counsel Forum: Lost in Translation — Decoding What Clients (Really) Want

• »  Outline and Selected Readings and Diversity vs. Title VII Article, Metropolitan Corporate Counsel
• »  Topics and Questions

Is this CAFA or Kafka?

• »  Multi-State Class Actions in a Time of Metamorphosis: A Surreal-Life Three-Act Play
• »  CAFA at Two: The Class Action Jurisdictional World Clarifies
• »  What a Tangled Web We Weave: Strategy Decisions from the Defense Perspective on CAFA
• »  Article: “How Do You Take Your Multi-State, Class-Action Litigation? One Lump or Two?” Infusing State Class-Action Jurisprudence into Federal, Multi-State, Class-Certification Analyses in a “CAFA-nated” World

The Antitrust-IP Interface

• »  What Attorneys Really Need to Know

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