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March 27, 2008
No Fooling
Not to put pressure on the guy but next week's Blawg Review host is one of the most talented, erudite and fun bloggers you'll see: George M. Wallace at Declarations and Exclusions.
An association of fools.
Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 11:59 PM | Comments (0)
Non-U.S. clients, non-U.S. courts--and punitive damages.
Many clients from Europe loathe and avoid U.S. courts, especially state courts. They prefer arbitration panels, even when arbitration itself threatens to be trial-like and lengthy. The expensive and drawn-out American court litigation process and its hefty jury awards--which often include a huge punitive damages component--is feared. And foreign courts, when faced with enforcing American punitive awards, are just as skittish. At the same time, some countries are starting to experiment with punitives, a mutant and now barely recognizable creature of American and English common law. See in yesterday's NYT "Foreign Courts Wary of U.S. Punitive Damages".
Posted by JD Hull at 11:59 PM | Comments (2)
Lamb: Where young legal talent may now go.
See this gem by Patrick Lamb we almost missed, and wish we could call our own: "Problems--The Mother's Milk of Innovation" at his In Search of Perfect Client Service. I've seen this pattern for years--but Pat isolates and describes it.
....what's emerging is this paradox: the best and the brightest leave the high priced big law firms in search of an alternative that provides better alternatives. They find it, receive better training and better opportunities to develop, and actually do develop. They develop so much they are actually better and more experienced than their former colleagues, many of whom are still reviewing documents manually, slowly and at great expense to the client.
Posted by JD Hull at 11:16 PM | Comments (0)
Wal-Mart trade dress: satire T-shirts OK.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution (3/25): "A Conyers man may continue criticizing Wal-Mart with parodies on T-shirts that compare the retail giant to the Holocaust and al-Qaida terrorists, a federal judge has ruled." Offending CafePress Ts: "I [heart] Wal-ocaust" and "Wal-Qaeda, The Dime Store From Hell."
Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 10:08 AM | Comments (0)