Blawgletter's firm had seven associates up for partner this year. This morning, we voted to invite all of them to join the partnership.
Congratulations to Jeremy Brandon (Dallas), Warren Burns (Dallas), Richard Hess (Houston), Alex Kaplan (Houston), Tibor Nagy (New York), Kalpana Srinivasan (Los Angeles), and Lexie White (Houston).
Even in a strong economy, clients – you – should look at ways to get the most value from your lawyer's services. That starts with picking the right lawyer, of course, but aligning your interests with him or her matters a lot, too.
Different fee arrangements create different incentives. An hourly engagement tends to give
The Charge Of The Light Brigade
by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Memorializing Events in the Battle of Balaclava, October 25, 1854
Written 1854
Half a league half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred:
'Forward, the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns' he said:
Into the valley
Congress allows appeals from "final" judgments but seldom other kinds. 28 U.S.C. 1291. An order that rejects most but not all claims on a motion to dismiss, for instance, doesn't count as final. (One to stand while speaking in court or to wear a yellow tie doesn't either.) But what if the ruling requires you to give
Who would gain from a law that bars you from paying your lawyer more than 25 percent of the money she wins for you in a lawsuit?
Think about it. If you have a case worth $X, a lawyer will take it on a contingent fee basis only if he thinks he can collect the
Seldom does Blawgletter get the chance to copy something we wrote a year ago, plop it into a post, and hit "Publish".
The Supremes gave us the excuse today by granting cert in Morrison v. Nat'l Australia Bank Ltd., No. 08-1191 (U.S. Nov. 30, 2009), about which we noted last October:
Down Under Securities
Last week, just before Thanksgiving, the Second Circuit shot a big turkey. The fowl in question – a jailbird actually — claimed that New York Daily News and The Polish Daily News defamed him. Their repute-blackening words? That Shemtov Michtavi, a drug offender, planned to sing like a canary.
The district court blasted the libel claim, holding that it couldn't fly
The Arbitration Act of 1925 set up a regime aiming to settle disputes quickly and cheaply. The system depends on courts to make it work. Courts don't do quick and cheap. Sorry.
The Fifth Circuit proved the point this week. The appeal turned on whether a district court erred by ordering a respondent in an arbitration (Old Colony) to pay $29,600 as a deposit to cover American
One hundred and eighty years ago, on August 15,1829, as the New England summer faded and a school year dawned, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story spoke to a muster of colleagues and students in Cambridge, Massachusetts. They came to honor the Justice's inauguration as Dane Professor of Law at Harvard University. He told them about the "Value and Importance of Legal
Boeing put the the first KC-135 Stratotanker into service 52 years ago. The U.S. Air Force bought the last one in 1965.
The four-engine KC-135 Stratotanker jets across the firmament, refueling other aircraft in flight. It also, per Boeing – which first delivered the hulking milk cow in June 1957 — can with upgrades "serve as flying command posts, pure transport
