Caught in Traffic: Learning Judgment on the Fly Eliot Turner What a young lawyer learned when his firm assigned him to work traffic court one day a week.
Appellate Practice A Primer on the Finality of Decisions for Appeal Brian C. Walsh An examination of the main strands of the law of finality and appealability, including some recent Supreme Court developments.
When the Client Is a Fraud: Defending Professionals and Firms Following a Client’s Misconduct Craig D. Singer Strategies for defending professionals and firms following a client’s misconduct.
Practical Considerations When Enforcing Judgments Tracy A. DiFillippo, Conor P. Flynn, and Michelle D. Alarie Failing to investigate collectability issues at the outset of a case may have costly consequences.
Default Judgments: Strategies for Making Them Stick . . . and for Making Them Go Away Eric B. Levasseur How to maximize your odds of successfully using or defending yourself against this powerful tool.
Protecting Your Company’s Assets as Whistleblowing Rises Matthew L. Fornshell, Elizabeth E. Cary, and Daniel Culicover An exploration of Dodd-Frank, the dangers of retaliation and obstruction suits, and strategies to protect companies.
Opening Statement: Seven Tips for Being a Better Lawyer Steven A. Weiss Advice derived from 35 years of practice, exclusively as a business litigator.
From the Bench: Judicial Transparency and Blogging Judges Hon. Richard G. Kopf A judge describes the promise and perils of blogging by judges.
iWitness: The Jury and the Internet: A New Way of Thinking George B. Curtis You can take the Internet out of the jury box, but can you remove its effects on the jurors themselves?
On the Papers: Irrational Rules: Minuscule Mysteries of Grammar Demystified George D. Gopen We have failed to understand that grammar should be approached not as rules but as tools to help readers read.
International Law Global Litigator: Due Process for Those Maligned in United Nations Reports Daniel Arshack and Marouschka Gunzburg Currently, there is no available legal recourse within the existing framework of the United Nations to clear your name from fraudulent allegations.
Advance Sheet: Old Moral Tales, and New Robert E. Shapiro In its reinforcement of our faith that the law will be upheld, the Hernandez trial gives us some hope that truly moral standards of conduct are not done for yet.
Client Protection Scruples: Adversity to a Colleague’s Former Client Michael Downey Can a lawyer sue a colleague's former client?
Property Law: The Law of “Dibs” Robert A. Clifford You’re patiently waiting in your car for someone to pull out of a parking spot only to have someone come out of nowhere and zip into it without any acknowledgment that you had dibs on it. George Costanza on Seinfeld would have none of that when he stood for weeks in an empty parking spot because the space was “just too good to give up.” How many can relate to that—although perhaps not to that extreme?
Trial Practice: A Short Primer on Objections Stuart M. Israel You can learn something about evidentiary objections from the movies.
Legal History: How the Civil War Continues to Affect the Law Kevin C. Donovan This year’s sesquicentennial of the Civil War marks the anniversary of an event that transformed our system of laws as much as it shaped our society overall. So much of the jurisprudence developed during our nation’s greatest conflict, and in the tumultuous Reconstruction years immediately after, continues to resonate in courtrooms today.
