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Litigation
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Hague Law Blog
The Thrust and Parry of Service Abroad
By Aaron Lukken
[caption id="attachment_3037" align="alignleft" width="320"] DoD photo (thus, public domain). Via Wikimedia Commons.[/caption] Litigation is civilized combat. That's not my original thought, but forgive the lack of appropriate credit. I don't recall…
MS Litigation Review & Commentary
Study Confirms Plaintiffs Win Less Than They Used To
An interesting article recently hit the presses: The Curious Incident of the Falling Win Rate, by Alexander Lahav and Peter Siegleman. Here is the Article. The study is based on…
San Antonio Employment Law Blog
Success Rates Plummet in Federal Court
Success rates for plaintiffs in federal court have dropped dramatically from the 1980's. In a study by two University of Connecticut law professors, they reported a success rate of 70%…
New York Attorney Malpractice Blog
Is Litigation the Sport of Kings? Read This Case
A couple of entrepreneurs meet in college and start up a translation company. Many years later, successful as hell, they embark on a new hobby...litigation. Both take to the sport…
Credit Chronometer
Oh, The Indemnity! New Claims May Follow RMBS Settlements
Joseph Cioffi and Seiji Newman’s article, “Oh, The Indemnity! New Claims May Follow RMBS Settlements” was published in Law360. Click here to view the full article.
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Pilot Program in the Northern District of Illinois Changes Pleading and Discovery Timing
By Robin Effron
The Northern District of Illinois launched a mandatory pilot program last month that requires parties to engage in a series of mandatory discovery requests and disclosures. The FJC reports that…
Napoli Shkolnik Blog
The Litigation Process And You
Nearly all negligence cases, somewhere around 90 percent by most estimates, settle before trial. Unfortunately, the big insurance companies and their legislative allies have made sure that the settlement process…
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
FJC Publication on Int’l Human Rights Litigation
By Robin Effron
The US Federal Judicial Center recently published International Human Rights Litigation: A Guide for Judges. This Guide was written to assist federal judges in managing and resolving federal cases involving…
Securities Law Exchange
SEC Comment About “Reasonably Possible” Litigation Loss
In monitoring SEC comment letters, we came across this SEC comment letter made public last week. It serves a reminder to registrants about their loss contingency disclosures, particularly those involving…
Delaware Corporate & Commercial Litigation Blog
M&A Litigation: Standards of Review
A member of the Delaware Court of Chancery has penned a chapter for an upcoming book on stockholder litigation. An overview of the chapter was recently published on the Harvard Law…