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In Honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.     Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968.

       Well, the American Tort Reform Foundation has come out with its 2011 list of top “hellholes” nationally for “places where judges systematically apply laws and court procedures in an unfair and unbalanced manner.”       California ranked second on the list, the same ranking as it had in 2010. The top ones were: Philadelphia;

Ernst Haeckel, Kunstformen der Natur (1904), plate 17.

       Just a quick post to remind ourselves that this is our third “birthday” in doing this blawg. We can hardly believe it; how time flies since our inaugural post on May 11, 2008. We hope it has been useful to you readers out there, and we thank you all for some very excellent

  The Conference is June 16, 2011, Noon to 5 p.m., at Southwestern School of Law      The National Association of Legal Fee Analysis (NALFA) holds its annual conference this year at Southwestern School of Law in Los Angeles.  Blawg co-contributor and co-creator Mike Hensley will be one of the speakers, participating in a panel

  Stay Tuned, Because Study of Israeli Judges Suggests Some Truth to This.      Okay, time for some “off topic” fun, under the heading, "justice, justice, shall you pursue." (Deut. 16:18-21:9).      We litigators know that there is a maxim that justice may well depend on “what the judge ate for breakfast.” Well, that idea

Professors Theodore Eisenberg (Cornell) and Geoffrey P. Miller (NYU) conclude that neither the American Rule nor the English Rule dominates the contracting practices of sophisticated firms      This empirical study of attorney fee clauses in publicly-held companies’ contracts, guaranteed to enchant law and economics wonks, examines a data set of 2,350 contracts contained as exhibits

California New Legislation Highlights      There are some civil litigation updates that have changed or added features of procedures used or which will be used by many California litigators on a frequent basis, depending on practice areas. Here are our highlights: 1. Striking of Judges. Code Civ. Proc., § 170.6. Time period for judge disqualification

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