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Litigation
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Traumatic Brain Injury Law Blog
Neuropsychological, Functional and Behavioral Outcome in South African Traumatic Brain Injury Litigants
The February 2013 issue of Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology included an interesting article out of Cape Town, South Africa, wherein researchers from the University of Cape Town examined the extent…
Employment & Labor
Upcoming ADA Seminar: Defense Strategies and Attorney Fee Awards
Join us at this year’s "ADA: Defense Strategies and Attorney Fee Awards in Light of Recent Legislation and Jankey v. Lee" seminar where Weintraub attorney Lizbeth West will be speaking…
Cruise Law News
Triumph Fire: Here Comes the Lawsuits! (Part 2): Miami Firm Files Class Action Lawsuit
By Jim Walker
Go big or stay home, so the saying goes. This weekend there have been several articles discussing the two lawsuits filed last Friday against Carnival arising out of the…
Securities Law Prof Blog
Litov et al. on Lawyer-Directors in Public Corporations
Lawyers and Fools: Lawyer-Directors in Public Corporations, by Lubomir P. Litov, University of Arizona - Department of Finance; University of Pennsylvania - Wharton Financial Institutions Center; Simone M. Sepe, University…
Litigation & Trial
Toot! Toot! All Aboard the Baloney Train!
Hardly a week goes by without an insurance company, a big corporation, or one of their lobbying groups complaining about "the cost of litigation," usually prefacing the word "cost" with…
The Rainmaker Blog
On Valentine’s & Every Other Day, We Love Lawsuits
I ran across this interesting infographic the other day that shows how much we as Americans love lawsuits: And because we love our readers, see our special offer below. Happy Valentine’s…
Flat Fee IP
eDiscovery Vendors Should Not Charge for Collecting and Preserving Data
By Dave Bohrer
Why? Our clients, as parties to litigation, are often required to collect and preserve all potentially relevant data. When this happens, they often believe that they have had to pay…
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Eisenberg, Fisher, and Rosen-Zvi on Loser-Pays Norm in Israeli Courts
By Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Theodore Eisenberg, Talia Fisher,and Issachar Rosen-Zvi have posted on SSRN their paper, When Courts Determine Fees in a System with aLoser Pays Norm: Fee Award Denials to Winning Plaintiffs and…
California Litigation Blog
No Attorney’s Fee Provision? Use RFAs Instead.
By Jeff Huron
As a general matter, the prevailing party in a lawsuit is not entitled to recovery of his attorney’s fees unless there is a written contract that contains an attorney’s fees…
Securities Law Prof Blog
Oral Argument in SEC v. Citigroup
William Alper, a Manhattan attorney, attended the oral argument today in SEC v. Citigroup at the request of the Securities Law Prof Blog and filed the following report. He cautions…