Last month, we learned of the death of Paul Rawlinson, global chairman of Baker McKenzie. At 56, Rawlinson took a medical leave six months ago, citing health concerns related to exhaustion. This news comes on the heels of several high-profile suicides and a Read more…
According to The Legal Executive Institute’s 2018 State of Corporate Law Departments: Innovation, Data and Collaboration Drive Optimal Results, one goal of a modern and proactive corporate legal team should be “to maximize shareholder value by driving up the effectiveness and Read more…
This Article explores a basic question of precedent formation: When a majority of the Supreme Court cannot agree on a rule of decision, can the Court nonetheless create a precedent? Under the Marks rule, the answer is yes: a fragmented Court decision Read more…
ETHICS If your judge is your Facebook friend, should that be disqualifying? A judge’s Facebook friendship with an attorney is not a legally sufficient basis to disqualify the judge from that attorney’s case, a sharply divided (4-3) Florida Supreme Court Read more…
I ran across this article in the ABA Journal and found it very interesting. “One hundred years ago, modern First Amendment jurisprudence was born with an opinion called the “great dissent.” Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes—along with Louis Brandeis—dissented in a Read more…
We found a fascinating story recently published in the ABA Journal, that follows the story of a young 16 year old that is on her way to a bright legal career. “Haley Taylor Schlitz loves learning and likes standardized tests. Read more…
What are the ethical responsibilities of overzealous lawyers who seek to “win” at all costs (“Rambo tactics”), including the tendency to ignore other considerations such as personal conscience and mortality, excuse under the guise they are required to “give their Read more…
We are living in the Information Age, where technologies continuously and rapidly evolve and the law struggles– and often fails– to keep up. An examples of this tension between digital transformation and legal doctrine is the means by which people Read more…
In modern litigation, there are very few tests that are as satisfying and potentially as impactful as winning the expert witness battle. While some wins are definitive and achieved in a blaze of expert-exclusion glory, most are accomplished through careful Read more…
The now-retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, in an opinion on a 2017 First Amendment case, called the cyber age a revolution of historic proportions, noting that “we cannot appreciate yet its full dimensions and vast potential to alter Read more…