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Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Boyd et al. on Clusters of Causes of Action in Federal Complaints
By Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
The Journal of Empirical Legal Studies has published online an article by Christina L.Boyd, David A. Hoffman, Zoran Obradovic, and Kosta Ristovsk entitled "Buildinga Taxonomy of Litigation: Clusters of…
Family Law Prof Blog
CA Litigation
By Family Law
Litigants in the family law context in California are challenging the Vexatious Litigant Statute (VLS). Read the federal court complaint here.MR
Labor Law Prof Blog
New Book: ERISA Litigation
Craig C. Martin & Amanda S. Amert, ERISA Benefits Litigation Answer Book (PLI 2013). Here's the publisher's notes:The 1974 enactment of [ERISA] brought to the federal courts an array of…
New York Attorney Malpractice Blog
To Consolidate or Not to Consolidate in Legal Malpractice
Consolidation or a joint trial are subject to judicial discretion. Judges are said to be the master of their calendar, and the Appellate Division rarely steps in and rearranges it. …
Securities Law Prof Blog
Badawi on Merger Class Actions and Multi-Jurisdictional Litigation
Merger Class Actions in Delaware and the Symptoms of Multi-Jurisdictional Litigation, by Adam B. Badawi, Washington University in Saint Louis - School of Law, was recently posted on SSRN. Here is…
Zen and the Art of Legal Networking
ILN-terviews: Joe Guarino, Epstein Becker & Green
Welcome to ILN-terviews, a series of profiles of ILN member firm attorneys, designed to give a unique insight into the lawyers who make up our Network. For our latest interview,…
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Levy on Judging the Flood of Litigation
By Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Marin Levy (Duke) has posted Judging the Flood of Litigation to SSRN.The Supreme Court has increasingly considered a particular kind of argument: that it should avoid reaching decisions that would…
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Seiner on Wal-Mart v. Dukes
By Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Professor Joe Seiner (South Carolina) has posted on SSRN a draftof his article, Weathering Wal-Mart, which willbe published in the Notre Dame Law Review. Here’s the abstract:In Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.…
The Contingency
Quote of the Day: Randolph F. Treece
In a review of Business and Commercial Litigation in Federal Courts (3d ed. 2012), U.S. Magistrate Judge Randolph F. Treece writes about a chapter that Blawgletter co-authored: Two chapters I hope…
Tom Mighell
Announcing: iPad in One Hour for Litigators
By Tom Mighell
When I talk to lawyers about using the iPad in their practice, I invariably get around to telling them that for some reason, app developers have really concentrated on making…