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M & A Law Prof Blog
Bank of America Goes to Court
The Wall Street Journal has just reported that Bank of America today filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in New York, against ABN Amro. The lawsuit seeks an order…
Rush on Business
Bad Lawsuits Just Tick People Off
By Rush Nigut
Brett Rogers of Beat Canvas had an angry post entitled "What is Wrong with America". Brett is disgusted with a justice system that allows a lawyer (and administrative law judge)…
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Prof. Lubet in the American Lawyer
By Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Prof. Steven Lubet has an essay today in the American Lawyer, discussing the Seventh Circuit's censure of a lawyer's deposition conduct. Rather than instructing the client not to answer the…
Chicago IP Litigation
Cummins-Allison & Glory Settle On Eve of Trial
Cummins-Allison Corp. v. Glory Ltd., No. 02 C 7008 (N.D. Ill. Apr. 25, 2007) (Posner, J.). Judge Posner, sitting by designation, entered an order dismissing all claim and counterclaims without…
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Your State’s Climate, According to U.S. Businesses
By Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Ryan Zempel, Managing Editor of the Institute for Legal Reform ("ILR"), gave us a heads-up on the release of the 2007 US Chamber of Commerce Lawsuit Climate Rankings. The study…
Legal Profession Blog
Hagans on the Future of Litigation Ethics
Fred Hagans (a Houton, Texas trial lawyer) has published in 25 The Review of Litigation 747 (U. Tex. 2006) an article entitled The Future of Litigation Ethics. Here is the…
ImmigrationProf Blog
A New Kind of Immigration Lawsuit
We have blogged for months about local governments, such as Hazleton, Farmets Branch, and Escondido, enacting anti-immigrant ordinances. Now we have a claim that a local police department is not…
South Carolina Nursing Home Blog
The Family Factor
Weighing The ‘Family Factor' In Nursing Home Neglect Cases By Michael Dayton Before heading to trial with a nursing home neglect action, Spartanburg attorney Gary W. Poliakoff offers this advice:…
The Contingency
Should You Attack Opposing Trial Counsel?
A cartoon from Barnett's Notes. The Sixth Circuit considered a case today that illustrates a trial lawyer indulging her dislike of opposing counsel. Anna Mayday sued the Saginaw Public Library…
New York Attorney Malpractice Blog
Shortcuts in Litigation and Legal Malpractice
Is the question of legal malpractice at the back of litigator's minds? It probably is, if only for the reason that good lawyers are always calculating whether they are doing…