They did it! The folks who create Super Lawyers have parsed their data to see which law schools produce the most promotion-worthy lawyers. The top 10 list follows:
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Alaska Supremes Uphold Shift from Flat to Contingent Fee
The Alaska Supreme Court looked last week at the trade off between lawyer and client in contingent fee arrangements. It held that an agreement to revert from a flat fee to the original contingent one didn't unduly burden the clients' right to accept or reject settlement offers.
The case involved a personal injury claim arising from
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed Also Faces Civil Charges
Blawgletter just got back from a short trip. You may only guess at our surprise when we learned that high profile lawyers, including Rudolph Guiliani, oppose trying 9/11 planners for mass murder in any civilian court, let alone the one nearest Ground Zero.
The foolish venuing, they argue, will give the likes of mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed a better
Quote of the Day: WSJ Editors
Huge contingency fees and damage awards are the mother's milk of frivolous lawsuits.
". . . And a Buried Tort Bomb", WSJ, Nov. 12, 2009.
Our feed wonders what they mean by frivolous.
Oral Order Supports Civil Contempt, Fifth Circuit Rules
A bankruptcy judge tells you, from the bench, "don't do X". You can't do X, right? Even if the judge hasn't signed an order, true?
Except that you didn't go to the hearing because you thought the court just might – let's face it, probably would — instruct you not to do X. Because you really
Would You Want a Judge Who Said Your Side “Would Have Loved for Me to Be out of the Way”?
The standard for recusal of a federal judge on grounds of bias requires proof that "his impartiality might reasonably be questioned." 28 U.S.C. 455(a).
The district judge in White v. Nat'l Football League, No. 08-2001, slip op. at 12 (8th Cir. Nov. 10, 2009), said in a press interview that the NFL "would have loved for
State Insurance Law Can’t Stop Arbitration, En Banc Fifth Circuit Holds
Have you ever heard of the McCarran-Ferguson Act? Not long ago, half a century after its passage, the statute became a low-key but key part of the healthcare reform debate.
The WWII-vintage statute, you see, generally exempts insurers from federal antitrust law. That means health (and other) insurers can collude to fix premiums, rig bids, allocate
Quote of the Day: Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) thought writing hard.
All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare.
James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (quoting Samuel Johnson in entry for Apr. 14, 1778).
Quote of the Day: David E. Mills
A man and his lawyer stand outside a building that looks like a courthouse:
Client: What's wrong? Why aren't we in court anymore?
Lawyer: I just got Twombleyed in the Iqbals.
David E. Mills, Courtoons, Oct. 23, 2009.
Motion to Vacate Arb Award Draws Sanctions in Tenth Circuit; Our “National Policy Favoring Arbitration”
A panel of the Tenth Circuit today affirmed an order that denied a motion to vacate an arbitrator's award in favor of Qwest, the telephone company.
The movant, DMA International, accused the neutral of misdeeds but mainly called him dumb for reading an unclear contract such that he ruled that DMA couldn't get $3.7 million more than the $1.7