Why Don't Lawyers Cite To Relevant Precedents?

A new study reports that judges and their law clerk's often locate outcome relevant case law that is not cited to by the lawyers in the...

California Has Adopted The National Standard For Ethics Rules

On May 10, 2018, California's Supreme Court adopted a new set of ethical rules for the state based upon the American Bar Association...

Multi-jurisdictional Litigation Is Surprisingly Common

Nearly 40 percent of the civil cases currently pending in federal court—now over 130,000—are part of a multidistrict litigation, or MDL. Fro...

SCOTUS Provides Sweeping Protection To Human Rights Violating Corporations

The U.S. Supreme Court has provided sweeping immunity from all Alien Tort Statute lawsuits for suits against corporations not incorporated i...

Federal Jury Trials Scarce In 2017

The 2017 annual statistical data from the federal courts of the United States has been released, and the long, slow path of the vanishing j...

Some Civil Procedure Reforms That Make Sense

Some Civil Procedure Reforms That Make Sense Regarding Formalities * The efiling system should never reject a filing. Instead, it should acc...