Speeches are not dead.

Lilly Ledbetter's remarks to the Democratic National Convention proved short and of no great impact in Denver yesterday, the standard marking of a box on a convention check list. (Her remarks are here.) We thought her appearance in a prime...

Law is a business.

(Note: Dan Schwartz anticipates the Ledbetter speech and examines pay issues and legislation at Walter Olson's other website, Overlawyered, here. The more light that shines, the better....) Today is Women's Equality Day, the kind of observance that prompts a presidential...

"Suppose Americans could fund litigation without contingency?"

Master Conspirator Eugene Volokh has suggested that we might do some posts giving advice to entering law students. I don't have much to add to what I said in this...

There was an interesting Ninth Circuit opinion yesterday, certifying questions of state law to the Washington Supreme Court, and in the process summarizing the uncertainty in the law. Here's one...

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Howard flags a fascinating contract law case handed down by the Sixth Circuit today. The question, in simplified form: If a 99-year lease signed in 1912 specifies that the...

Starting in the 1950s, she was a leader for the rights of lesbians and gay men in a time when the FBI was infiltrating the meetings of gay organizations, sodomy...