The annual trial lawyers convention is just around the corner, as members of the American Association for Justice gather in Philadelphia July 12-16th. The convention brochure, as always, makes for interesting reading. You get a good sense of new strategies...

West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin has taken the unusual step of filing an amicus brief with the state Supreme Court of Appeals, asking the court to clarify the ability of DuPont to challenge a jury's award of punitive damages against...

In West Virginia, a state where government hiring of private lawyers to pursue public lawsuits has been particularly controversial, four law firms including Hagens Berman are set to split $3.9 million for prosecuting an antitrust suit against Visa and MasterCard...

The government had suggested probation, but as the WSJ law blog (free!) reports, he has been sentenced to 14 months for misprision of a felony. The WSJ law blog says that this federal crime is committed by failure to report...

Kentucky jury acquits Melbourne Mills, the "too drunk to pay attention" fen-phen defendant, can't reach agreement on others [Ted @ OL] Related: Florida A&M says no one's proved $1 million law school donation from Ky. scandal's Shirley Cunningham came from...

In the obit for former Senator Jesse Helms on NBC Nightly News, they mentioned (or at least hinted at) his racist background, as they should have, but I was stunned by...

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Odd factoid that I didn't know until today -- Alan Gura, the winning lawyer in the Heller v. D.C. Second Amendment case, was born in Israel....

My post on reducing the pain of taking the bar exam has attracted eminent critics such as Jim Chen and Nancy Rapoport....

Colorado Inside Out is weekly public affairs roundtable program, on KBDI channel 12, one of the two PBS stations in Denver. Twice a year, the program tapes a Time Machine...