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Three Lessons on Appealing from Arbitrations
April 29, 2014
Three decisions came out recently that offer guidance on appealing from arbitration awards. Here are three pearls of arbitration...
April 29, 2014
Three decisions came out recently that offer guidance on appealing from arbitration awards. Here are three pearls of arbitration...
Visual Law Services Are Worth a Thousand Words—And Big Money
April 29, 2014
To eliminate the guesswork from settlement negotiations, San Antonio, Texas, mediator Don Philbin developed Picture It Settled,...
April 29, 2014
To eliminate the guesswork from settlement negotiations, San Antonio, Texas, mediator Don Philbin developed Picture It Settled,...
Some Thoughts On General Mills’ Move To Mandate Arbitration And Waive Class Actions
April 29, 2014
Class action waivers are undergoing a renaissance following the Supreme Court’s recent decisions in Wal-Mart v. Dukes and AT&T v. Concepcion. With the green light from the Supreme Court, more companies are adopting class action waivers in a wider range of circumstances. What’s unusual about General Mills’ move is that we haven’t seen such a broad-based waiver from a consumer packaged goods company. Most consumer packaged goods companies don’t have a direct relationship with their...
April 29, 2014
Class action waivers are undergoing a renaissance following the Supreme Court’s recent decisions in Wal-Mart v. Dukes and AT&T v. Concepcion. With the green light from the Supreme Court, more companies are adopting class action waivers in a wider range of circumstances. What’s unusual about General Mills’ move is that we haven’t seen such a broad-based waiver from a consumer packaged goods company. Most consumer packaged goods companies don’t have a direct relationship with their...
Turning Negative Feedback Into a Positive
April 28, 2014
Feedback is everywhere. Not just in the form of professional performance reviews and unwanted comments from your parents, children and partners. Social media and review sites have unleashed the critic in us all. Eating a meal out? Post what you think of the food and waiters on a review site while still at the table. If you are reading this review online, you can leave a comment below saying just how wrong I am. We may not be able to exert complete control over what someone else thinks of us, but we can certainly...
April 28, 2014
Feedback is everywhere. Not just in the form of professional performance reviews and unwanted comments from your parents, children and partners. Social media and review sites have unleashed the critic in us all. Eating a meal out? Post what you think of the food and waiters on a review site while still at the table. If you are reading this review online, you can leave a comment below saying just how wrong I am. We may not be able to exert complete control over what someone else thinks of us, but we can certainly...
Have Supreme Court Opinions Become More Unreadable?
April 28, 2014
Professor Stephen Johnson says, yes. His article is “The Changing Discourse of the Supreme Court,” 12University of New Hampshire Law Review 29 (2013). I correlate this decline in readability with the increasing density of law review articles. The top law review officers go on to clerk for SCOTUS and bring their bad habits with them. Here is the abstract (excerpts): Academics, judges and other commentators complain that, for the past few decades, the Justices on the Supreme Court have been increasingly...
April 28, 2014
Professor Stephen Johnson says, yes. His article is “The Changing Discourse of the Supreme Court,” 12University of New Hampshire Law Review 29 (2013). I correlate this decline in readability with the increasing density of law review articles. The top law review officers go on to clerk for SCOTUS and bring their bad habits with them. Here is the abstract (excerpts): Academics, judges and other commentators complain that, for the past few decades, the Justices on the Supreme Court have been increasingly...
Ignoring Shakespeare’s Butcher, Law Firm Advises How To Cut Legal Bills
April 28, 2014
Companies are slashing legal costs left and right, with consultants lining up to show them how. Curiously, one of those consultants is a Chicago law firm: Seyfarth Shaw LLP. The concept understandably has been a tough sell to some Seyfarth partners, and some general counsels are skeptical of its cost-benefit. Seyfarth has landed only a handful of known consulting clients, including Chicago's CNA Financial Corp., Nike Inc. of Beaverton, Ore., and Rockwell Collins Inc., a Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based...
April 28, 2014
Companies are slashing legal costs left and right, with consultants lining up to show them how. Curiously, one of those consultants is a Chicago law firm: Seyfarth Shaw LLP. The concept understandably has been a tough sell to some Seyfarth partners, and some general counsels are skeptical of its cost-benefit. Seyfarth has landed only a handful of known consulting clients, including Chicago's CNA Financial Corp., Nike Inc. of Beaverton, Ore., and Rockwell Collins Inc., a Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based...
Samsung Not Entitled to Discover Settlement Offers to License Utility Patents
April 28, 2014
The court denied Samsung discovery into Apple’s offers to license its utility patents to Samsung, as the settlement negotiations were confidential. Apple, Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co., No. 11-CV-01846-LHK (U.S.D.C. N.D. Cal., January 7, 2014)
April 28, 2014
The court denied Samsung discovery into Apple’s offers to license its utility patents to Samsung, as the settlement negotiations were confidential. Apple, Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co., No. 11-CV-01846-LHK (U.S.D.C. N.D. Cal., January 7, 2014)
Advisory Committee Approves Proposed Amendments to Civil Rules, Next Stop Standing Committee!
April 28, 2014
As was reported on this blog just last week, the Advisory Committee on Civil Rules met on April 10th and 11th to review proposed amendments to the Rules of Civil Procedure, including recommended changes to those proposed amendments as published for public comment. On the first day of meetings, the Advisory Committee unanimously approved proposed amendments to Rules 1, 4, 16, 26, and 34, including the Duke Subcommittee’s recommendations as outlined in the Advisory Committee’s Agenda Book (discussed...
April 28, 2014
As was reported on this blog just last week, the Advisory Committee on Civil Rules met on April 10th and 11th to review proposed amendments to the Rules of Civil Procedure, including recommended changes to those proposed amendments as published for public comment. On the first day of meetings, the Advisory Committee unanimously approved proposed amendments to Rules 1, 4, 16, 26, and 34, including the Duke Subcommittee’s recommendations as outlined in the Advisory Committee’s Agenda Book (discussed...
The Art of Hiring
April 27, 2014
Law departments develop their own methods for hiring and preparing their lawyers. Google, IBM and Microsoft have adopted...
April 27, 2014
Law departments develop their own methods for hiring and preparing their lawyers. Google, IBM and Microsoft have adopted...
Bright Spots Amid Glum Jobs Outlook
April 27, 2014
Top law schools place their graduates, but elsewhere "the future remains grim." Top law schools are able to place most of their graduates in associate positions, but elsewhere the future remains grim according to employment stats released last week by the American Bar Association. Read more: http://www.nationallawjournal.com/id=1202651684724/Bright-Spots-Amid-Glum-Jobs-Outlook#ixzz2zWPNt7dI
April 27, 2014
Top law schools place their graduates, but elsewhere "the future remains grim." Top law schools are able to place most of their graduates in associate positions, but elsewhere the future remains grim according to employment stats released last week by the American Bar Association. Read more: http://www.nationallawjournal.com/id=1202651684724/Bright-Spots-Amid-Glum-Jobs-Outlook#ixzz2zWPNt7dI
