Litigation & Trials Battling the System to Vindicate Employment Rights Sarah Prescott Employment litigation for plaintiffs is incredibly challenging work, but it is also work that can be very lucrative and emotionally rewarding.
Access to Justice Sua Sponte: A Judge Comments Hon. Elizabeth M. Welch Delay can result in a party with a meritorious claim walking away with nothing more than a financial and emotional insult to add to a legal injury.
Litigation & Trials Working the Heater Case Dan Herbert Some cases are decided on factors wholly unrelated to the evidence at trial. This is profoundly true with sensational cases.
Litigation & Trials The Justice Case for Litigation Finance M. Todd Henderson The increase in the use of legal finance has begun to level the playing field for the search for truth.
Litigation & Trials Four Keys to Litigating a Modern Trade Secret Case David A. Perez and Heath L. Hyatt Whichever side you’re on, it’s important to know the forensic evidence, preserve everything, seek early equitable relief, and define the relevant trade secrets early.
Litigation & Trials Legal Research: The Old Way Versus the New Mark A. Neubauer and Kathryn Neubauer Rosen Using the old way, a researcher gets the full picture of the law, but picking the wrong key number can lead the researcher astray.
Litigation & Trials Should I Stay (Home) or Should I Go (to the Office)? Lee Stapleton and James Czodli Lawyers need each other because they learn from each other. Lawyers in the early years of their career must learn their craft.
White Collar Crime A Receiver’s Colorful Journey into Fraudulent Schemes Kathy Bazoian Phelps and Robert P. Mosier Even though often flying blind, the receiver must act quickly to preserve any available records and to recover assets.
Litigation & Trials Moving a Fairness Mantra into Action Faith Gay We believe you can do good by doing well, and vice versa. We only take cases in which our ethical commitments align with our clients’.
Litigation & Trials America the Client! Daniel W. Van Horn Imagine if we had more lawyers dedicated to helping educate society as to the strengths and weaknesses of all manner of positions and arguments.
Litigation & Trials Judicial Education and the Human Side of Judging Hon. Jeremy Fogel Once considered off-topic and largely irrelevant, educational content that explores and illuminates the human side of judging is now the state of the art.
Litigation & Trials Building to a Glorious End: “I Have a Dream” Speech, Part II George D. Gopen An understanding of how Dr. King achieved his oratorical success may well help you better serve your clients.
Civil Rights & Constitution Stare Decisis and the Supreme Court’s Undoing Project Kenneth Berman After Dobbs, many are justifiably worrying about what other important constitutional rulings are at risk. Scarily, they all are.
Litigation & Trials Mismatched Expectations: Meet-and-Confer Sessions Robert E. Shapiro How come the meet-and-confer obligation, as much a staple of day-to-day litigation as any other procedure in the books, never seems to work?
Litigation & Trials How I Learned to Be a Great Litigator Kenneth P. Nolan Your job is to win the case. If that means you say little or suppress your ego, then do so. Jurors know if you’re a phony, a “showoff,” and will punish you.
Litigation & Trials Proper Distribution of Settlement Funds Michael Downey You need to sweep all your earned fees out at once. If earned fees sit in your trust account, you would be commingling funds.
Litigation & Trials Finding Mentors, Building Skills Sheila S. Boston You have to be willing to accept help wherever it makes sense to get it from, regardless of what that person looks like.
Litigation & Trials The Case for Soft Skills Paige Gentry and Ellen Gilley Despite the identification of professional relationships as a consistent and key practice challenge, little training is focused on building the “human” skills necessary to meet it.
