Volume 48, Issue 3
Disinformation has serious consequences for democracy, national security, public health, and individual rights. Increasingly, victims are attempting to combat disinformation via litigation.
The False Claims Act has become the government’s main weapon for fighting fraud—about 80 percent of all government fraud recoveries since 2017 are attributable to qui tam cases brought by whistleblow…
As society's standards change, execution drug shortages may continue, and states will be forced to make difficult decisions.
While each person’s path is unique, everyone faces similar challenges as we confront the choices we must make in our life and our career.
Clients often need quick advice, without the luxury of researching a question to death before providing that advice.
A judge argues that lawyers need to use briefs to persuade the court that an oral argument is necessary.
In 2018, a law firm launched a top-to-bottom refresh of its litigation training, combining elements of formal education and apprenticeship, with seminar and learn-by-doing elements.
With their training and leadership skills, retired lawyers can contribute much to society. By identifying a societal problem and taking action to help deal with it, you will have gratifying experienc…
How should we address the conflict between a litigant’s desire for confidentiality and the principles of an open judicial system?
Our profession is undergoing a sea change in how we practice, and it's being driven by more than just the COVID-19 pandemic.
By listening more to her younger staff, a judge hopes to find new ways to build community and collaboration, while continuing remote work without burnout.
Just as tools are ineffective without guidance and execution, the cleverest software cannot help lawyers do their jobs better without the right combination of hardware, people, and process.
Had Senator Nixon not met this rhetorical challenge, he never would have survived politically to become President Nixon.
What can be done to stop jurors from drawing polar opposite conclusions on the exact same evidence and get them to find the real truth?
It is a feature of the common law, and the adversary system, that new law depends on old reasoning. If the latter is defective, so may be the new.
An overweight plane piloted by an inadequate crew crashed in the Atlantic a mile and a half from the airport when an engine failed, killing all on board. Clemente’s body was never found.
Private law firms now can generally use a trade name, as long as the name is not misleading, but if you use names, the names must be of owners of the firm who practice at the firm.
For all of its reliance on precedent and the past, the practice of law is primarily based on the management of changing circumstances.