Another Lawyer Hero
In some stories, it is easy to identify the hero.
In the New York Times bestseller, The Radium Girls, author Kate Moore tells a true story about awful workplace conditions in the early 20th ...
“These are not Normal Times:” A Guest Post by Reuben A. Guttman
My friend and brilliant qui tam lawyer, Reuben Guttman, prods debate on current issues through a listserv on which he graciously included me. He recently circulated a piece that eloquently ...
Rearranging Chairs on the Titanic: How the Media Blew the Story of Trump v Bannon
Donald Trump hates all media that criticize or disagree with him. This is so very dangerous, for it is not the duty of the media to support our leaders. Rather, it is their obligation ...
The Conundrum Facing Us
What the Democrats in the Senate should do about Judge Gorsuch is truly a dilemma. The failure to hold hearings on President Obama’s appointee Merrick Garland was unprecedented, even ...
Love Will Always Win
I woke up earlier than expected Sunday morning. My phone was buzzing with a notification sound I had never heard before, over and over again. Confused and thinking maybe I accidentally set some ...
Who’s Unpatriotic Now?
It seems to be well-established by Donald Trump himself that he is an unapologetic racist, misogynist, divisive, self-aggrandizing narcissist with all of the attributes of a fascist dictator. ...
Ascertainability, Injury and the Upside-down View of Class Actions
Class actions are a procedural device enabling courts to handle large numbers of similar claims efficiently and economically. The procedural device serves two purposes.
Spending $100 to get ...
Three Equal Branches of Government – Sort of
I have a poor excuse for not blogging for a long time --- there have been so many issues to blog about that I have been paralyzed. While true, it is such a lame excuse that I am forcing myself ...
The Republican State of Mind: It Only Matters If It Happens to Me
Illinois Senator Mark Kirk suffered a stroke about a year ago. He is only 53 years old, was an active member of the Navy Reserves and worked out regularly, so it was, to say the least, a ...
Dodd-Frank Two Years Later, Part I
I spoke recently at the annual conference of the National Association of State Treasurers (“NAST”). The panel I was on was directed to Dodd-Frank and the impact of its financial reforms two ...
Traditional and New Media in Class Action Notice: The State of Play
The following is a guest blog post by Shannon Wheatman of Kinsella Media.
As the Internet is increasingly used for communication, entertainment, news and information gathering, class action ...
Disappearing Cases
The following is a guest post by F. Paul Bland, Jr., a Senior Attorney for Public Justice.
This probably won't shock you: five members of the U.S. Supreme Court really like mandatory ...