Cape Enrage, New Brunswick, Canada.
Blawgletter has noted cases, in California and Rhode Island, that question the ethics and legality of public entities' hiring of private lawyers to handle civil claims on a contingent fee basis.
We've also said we think states, cities, counties, villages, hamlets, and wide spots in the road should, and rightly
Smith Barney promised a lawyer to discount its standard commission rates to as little as three cents a share. It in fact billed him more than its standard rates. The lawyer demanded, and got, an accounting. But Smith Barney's calculations showed the delta between standard rates and actual rates — not the difference between three
One of Blawgletter's partners applied with the Oscar Mayer company to drive one of its Wienermobiles. He didn't get the gig. Or maybe he did but declined. Wisely.
A news report today called that bit of info to mind. It dealt with a visit by an OM cold cut car to the deck and garage of a home
What can birth order tell us about these folks?
Blawgletter has enjoyed re-reading a 1996 book by Frank J. Sulloway – Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives. The inside dust jacket says:
At the heart of this pioneering inquiry into human development is a fundamental insight: that the personalities of
Today we get a special treat — a guest blawg by the one . . . the only . . . the delightful . . . Gretchen S. Sween.
Her post deals with the epistemology of drawing lines. Blawgletter thinks you'll like it. We sure did.
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Before I built a wall I'd ask to
The educator's website says someone has visited it 48 times since 2003. Spicy!
Georgetown Law Professor Randy E. Barnett today pens an item for the WSJ. His subject? The now-underway Senate Judiciary hearings to confirm, or reject, the tapping of Second Circuit Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the U.S. Supreme Court.
The title of the piece — "
Blawgletter wrote in April about a Fifth Circuit decision that, to our surprise, made a big deal about its — the court's – greater openness to the same argument by one side (the defense side) than by the other side. The issue concerned whether a party waived a right to arbitrate a dispute.
The panel in the April case found that the plaintiff
Say you win an arbitration. The state law you based your claim on calls for the winner to get his or her attorneys' fees. The loser goes to federal court to vacate the award but loses that gambit, too. Can you recover your fees for fighting the effort to overturn the arbitration outcome?
Yes, the
Dear Ms./Mr. My Firm is Too Good For You:
Thank you very much for your recent letter explaining that, despite the fact I am a wonderful person and will likely win the Nobel Prize for Law someday, you were not able to offer me a callback interview and/or a position as a Summer Associate. I
The Supreme Court of Minnesota. (It will make sense if you read the whole post.)
Blawgletter has heard, and sometimes says, that such and such beats a poke in the eye with a sharp stick. The phrase applies to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling yesterday on state power over national banks.
The 5-4 decision