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...

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...

The Federal Criminal Docket In The Fourth Quarter Of 2017

Conclusions * Sentences for child pornography (mostly possession not creation of it) are far too high. The average child pornography sentenc...