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...

A Judge's Demographic Characteristics Are Correlated With Sentencing Outcomes

A continuing education course/happy hour presentation of the Colorado Bar Association in a couple of weeks will present some new empirical f...

Judges Still Hate Foreign Asset Protection Trusts

A March 2018 case out of a federal court in Nevada illustrates the recurring reality that judges do not think highly of people who try to s...

Mueller And The Rule of Law

Former FBI Director Mueller indicted President Trump's former campaign director and one of his main deputies for illegal ties to Russia...