In a couple of weeks, Blawgletter will end its eight-year run as my principal law blog.
On Tuesday, June 16, I will launch The Contingency: Insights on Sharing the Risks and Rewards of High-Stakes Business Disputes. You'll get more info on The Contingency, including how to subscribe.
Turning down the lights on Blawgletter
The wise thing for me to say . . . is that I don't have evidence to contradict it.
David Ingram, "Q&A: Plaintiffs' Lawyer Barry Barnett on the Comcast class action", Thomson Reuters News & Insight, May 13, 2013 (referring to "the academic study spotlighted in The New York Times that found
Here you go — the list. Plus the update.
Blawgletter got it right a couple days ago.
See y'all in the Gem State — which we've never had the honor to visit ere now — a month hence.
Blawgletter often handles business cases on a contingent fee basis. We earn a percentage of the client's recovery. No recovery, no fee.
But guess what? The client may owe tax on the recovery. Which could of course affect the client's net. And the Internal Revenue Service may regard the entire recovery — including the contingent
The Fifth Circuit kept itself busy last week with Texas fraudulent inducement cases, in which Innocent Person accused Lying Person of fibbing to get IP to sign a contract with LP.
In one appeal (see post), a panel held as a matter of law that a false representation in a contract didn't count as a misrepresentation at
Pardon our excitement, but Eric Turkewitz has included our "Got Champerty" post in his Friday Linkworthy on New York Personal Injury Law Blog. Alright, Eric!
The Second Circuit did a brave thing today. It tossed dismissal of a price-fixing complaint that centered on "parallel" conduct — the very thing the Supremes disparaged as a basis for stating a section 1 Sherman Act claim in Bell Atl. Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544 (2007).
The case involved allegations that major
The law gives its strivers an odd sense of reality. That goes double for those who work the courtroom.
You may put blood, sweat, and tears into a case for years, pressing to show and persuade the trier of fact that Thing A happened and that Fact A exists — and contrarily that Thing B didn't occur
The subprime residential mortgage business got much of its lending money from big banks. Wall Street in turn acquired the cash by pooling thousands of subprime mortgages into securities and selling the paper to investors.
In 2007, Lone Star bought $61 million of such securities from Barclays Bank and Barclays Capital. The deal documents
