In case you doubted that employment discrimination litigation is entering a new period of expansion: In 2008, the EEOC received 95,402 private sector charges of discrimination, which is a 15.2% increase from 2007....

The Manhattan Institute Center for Legal Policy today released a report by senior fellow Marie Gryphon, Greater Justice, Lower Cost: How a Loser Pays Rule Would Improve the American Legal System. The report concludes: The United States pays a high...

Some humorous support of the Manhattan Institutes (and Marie Gryphons) superb new study on legal fees comes from the Washington Examiners editorial page editor, who says we lawyers have a lot to learn from the denizens of sports bars. Good...

Not too long ago it was still a relatively novel idea for large law firms to sponsor or otherwise sanction blogging by their member lawyers or allied professionals. Now GeekLawBlog has a running total of 141 such blogs from 56...

In a stinging rebuke to a small army of progressive American academics, journalists, foundation grantmakers, and others whove promoted the case for years, a San Francisco jury has cleared the Chevron Corporation of all liability in the civil suit filed...

The New York Times editorializes in favor of "sound gun-control laws." Which ones? "Reasonable gun-control laws," which can now be enacted following the "gun lobby"'s defeat in November. (No word...

Economist Steven Horwitz has a fascinating post on the history behind the Schechter Poultry case, the 1935 Supreme Court decision that struck down the National Industrial Recovery Act -...

Looks like the Democrats won't get to 60 in the Senate. Here's the news from Georgia's runoff election:...

Readers in the Philadelphia area may be interested to know that I will be giving a speech tomorrow for the University of Pennsylvania Libertarians at 8:30 PM in Houston Hall, Rm....

Thanks Eugene, for inviting me to join the conspiracy – and thanks to those who welcomed me in advance of my actually doing anything to deserve such treatment. To be...