A flurry of activity concerning the standards for corporate prosecutions, summarized nicely in a Wall Street Journal editorial today, "White-Collar Justice":Congratulations to Lewis D. Kaplan, the federal judge whose withering critique of prosecutorial abuse in the KPMG tax-shelter case was...

Not much to say about Alaska's governor, Sarah Palin, on legal reform issues (certainly a lot less than Sen. Joe Biden). The Pacific Research Institute's 2008 State Liability Index ranks Alaska as having the No. 2 legal climate in outputs...

There's the company's lawyer, of course, and then a separate lawyer to represent the directors, whose stance may be adverse to that of the company's; is a third lawyer going to have to be called in to help break ties?...

Lawyers know the power of stagecraft bundled with an inspired performance

Arguments based on the "right thing to do" or natural law have power in times of change.

Bill Stuntz has a fascinating analysis of experience and accomplishments. After discussing experience as time spent in state or federal jobs, he writes:...

Whichever candidate is elected President, it will be the first time since Kennedy that someone went straight from the Senate to the White House – and Kennedy came from a very...

Back in January, Governor Palin had an op-ed in the NYT arguing against the proposed listing of polar bears under the Endangered Species Act. It began:...

My New Atlantis article on the FWS decision to list the polar as a "threatened species" under the Endangered Species Act is now available online. Here's my conclusion:...

Seemingly nothing so far (as of 7:47 pm Pacific), though Yahoo! News reports the story has been covered not just by the Orange County Register (the newspaper that broke the story),...