Blawgletter’s heard scads of complaints about paying hourly fees in business litigation. We talked about that very phenomenon, and the reality it reflects, in August of 2007. But today brought a startling reminder that companies don’t act as if they mind paying squads — multiple squads — to handle high-stakes lawsuits. Quite the opposite.
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Former trial lawyer (and current presidential candidate) John Edwards today published My Plan to Stop Corporate Abuses in the WSJ. He notes the astonishing disparity between the wealth of corporate insiders and the declining living standards for ordinary workers. He sums up thus:
The success of our own economy demands that we uphold our country’s
Kevin O’Keefe practiced as a trial lawyer in rural Wisconsin for 17 years before founding Prairielaw.com, which he sold to LexisNexis, and then LexBlog, where he now serves as President.
Via his marvelously pithy Real Lawyers Have Blogs, Kevin offers lots of free advice on blawging — or, as he might put it
Referring to proposals for making judicial salaries more equitable, the seventeenth Chief Justice of the United States, John Glover Roberts, Jr., said at 12:01 a.m. today in the 2007 Year-End Report on the Federal Judiciary:
I do not need to rehearse the compelling arguments in favor of this legislation. They have already been
You can now see the February 2008 issue of Barnett’s Notes on Commercial Litigation. Which actually won a grand prize award last year for law firm newsletters.
The new issue — available via email subscription — features:
Yesterday, Blawgletter listed our 10 most popular posts in our inaugural year. Please indulge us now as we reveal the 10 we enjoyed writing most:
10. Banishing Jury Trial.
9. Frosty Bites Nips Dippin’ Dots in Patent Case.
Platinum Equity plans to end its pact with PPG Industries to buy PPG’s automotive glass bidness. PPG press release here; WSJ article here. Platinum feels so strongly about the justness of its position that it sued PPG in Manhattan to get a judicial declaration that it could walk away from the $500 million
Blawgletter posted 850 items in 2007 (so far), but only a small fraction can make it to this list. Only you, dear viewers and clickers, could determine the top 10. They are:
8. Insurance Coverage for Directors and Officers? Eighth Circuit Says Yep.
Section 1083 of the new defense appropriations bill, H.R. 1585, would sure enough have exposed the Iraqi government’s U.S. assets to claims arising from the regime of Saddam Hussein, as the White House’s Memorandum of Disapproval today notes.
The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976 generally exempts bank accounts, high-rise condominiums, and other assets
Will a merger finish Finish Line?
Blawgletter read this morning that a Tennessee trial judge yesterday ordered footwear-retailer Finish Line to keep its promise to buy rival Genesco for $1.5 billion. WSJ article here; Bloomberg here.
Then we read the court’s 43-page Memorandum Opinion and Order, which Genesco kindly posted on its