Law, Strategy, and Risk in Commercial Disputes
In case you missed the en banc argument on Wednesday to the Third Circuit in Sullivan v. DB Investments Inc., No. 08-2784 (audio file here; post on panel decision here), Blawgletter offers our fragmentary notes below.
[By way of background, a panel of the Third Circuit ruled that, because some states don't allow indirect…
Does the federal Arbitration Act allow you to appeal an arbitrator's award to a federal court of appeals, skipping the district court? What if the other side agreed to the direct appeal thing?
The Ninth Circuit held in Johnson v. Wells Fargo Mortgage, Inc., No. 09-15937 (9th Cir. Feb. 15, 2011), that the Act bars…
The training of a nation to fit itself successfully to fulfill the duties of self-government is a matter, not of a decade or two, but of generations.
Edmund Morris, Colonel Roosevelt 38 (2010) (quoting from a speech by the former President at Cairo University on March 9, 1910).
Have you gotten one of those emails that says a non-U.S. outfit has big money coming to it but somehow no one there knows any U.S. lawyers and that the sender wants you to help it get the big money? Perhaps you could advance a small sum — $10,000 perhaps — to grease the skids?…
In September of 2009, a court of appeals panel upheld the right of firms — and of all other "persons" fictitious in law — to block the feds' release of emails and other documents that the firms submitted to the feds but that might cast them in a bad light. See "Do Fake Persons…
"You must know — " said the Judge: but the Snark exclaimed "Fudge!
That statute is obsolete quite!
Let me tell you, my friends, the whole question depends
On an ancient manorial right."
Lewis Carroll, "The Barrister's Dream", The Hunting of the Snark (1874).
(For another obsolete statute, see ruling. If you dare.)
State bars like to reward lawyers who do great work, and they should. Although they bestow praise erratically, they do so in lots of ways. Methods include public embrace of those whose wondrous skills, in the opinion of the kudos-givers, set them apart from run of the mill license-holders.
A case involving a Florida lawyer raised…
Get Involved: The World Is Run by People Who Show Up
I know you are asking today, "How long will it take?" Somebody’s asking, "How long will prejudice blind the visions of men, darken their understanding, and drive bright-eyed wisdom from her sacred throne?" Somebody’s asking, "When will wounded justice, lying prostrate on the streets of Selma and Birmingham and communities all over the South, be
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Blawgletter got back last night from a trip, to Philadelphia and New York, that put us in touch with long-time lawyer friends we don't see often enough. We enjoyed our visits.
But one of the friends told us about something that disturbed us, even seemed bizarre. Big firms, the friend said, don't value trial lawyers…