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April 19, 2008
Greece: Litigation and ADR
Mike McIlwrath, a GE in-house litigation counsel based in Florence, Italy, discusses litigation, mediation, and arbitration in Greece with Greek litigator Pericles Stroubos. Listen to IDN podcast No. 23, "Negotiating a Binding Dispute Clause with a Greek Company".
Posted by Brooke Powell at 11:58 PM | Comments (0)
Newsweek poll: Hillary drops back more.
At WAC?, politics is always important. Who governs and how informs culture, business, law, religion and even art. So our writers watch, chose sides, get involved when inspired, vote and argue amongst ourselves. We have serious Rs, Ds and "Others". A Newsweek poll says Hillary Clinton is losing ground: "Despite her campaign's relentless attacks on Barack Obama's qualifications and electability, Hillary Clinton has lost a lot of ground with Democratic voters nationwide going into Tuesday's critical primary in Pennsylvania..." [more]
Posted by JD Hull at 09:05 AM | Comments (2)
April 18, 2008
More coverage of SCOTUS MeadWestvaco tax opinion.
In no particular order:
Canada's Law Day
Paul Caron's TaxProf Blog
The venerable Lyle Denniston at SCOTUS blog
University of Pittsburgh's Jurist
Cato Institute's Cato @ Liberty
Alan Sherman at Texas State and Local Tax Law Blog
Howard Bashman at How Appealing
National Association of Manufacturers's ShopFloor blog
Kimberly Atkins at DC Dicta
D.C. Toedt at 100 Feet Up.
Background and pre-argument comments by WAC? are here.
Posted by Julie McGuire and Dan Hull at 06:05 PM | Comments (0)
April 17, 2008
S&P/BusinessWeek's Global Innovation Index
The notion is that over the last year companies in the "GII"--an upstart index launched in February 2008--have outperformed companies in the S&P 500 Index and the S&P Global 100 Index. See the index and "Innovation Scores Again" at Not An MBA. Via Ed. of Blawg Review, a global and innovative being.
Posted by JD Hull at 12:45 AM | Comments (0)
April 16, 2008
Cross-examination: criminal v. civil.
They are two different worlds. Chicago's Stewart Weltman explains at his Lean and Mean Litigation blog.
Posted by JD Hull at 11:59 PM | Comments (2)
Why ever mediate?
For some answers, see Justin Patten's Human Law Mediation. It took our firm--and me--a long time to figure it out: paying a hard-working mediator to deliver a reality check to all sides is the best settlement device out there. It stifles the testosterone for a few hours, and forces reflection. Helps your client rep/GC and you with your inevitable "Kool-Aid" problems*, too. If something can settle at all, a good mediator will get that done. It is well worth the money spent. If it still tries, you try a more efficient case.
*Believing and thinking for whatever reasons that your court case is better than it actually is.
Posted by JD Hull at 12:09 PM | Comments (2)
U.S. Supreme Court decides corporate tax dispute in MeadWestvaco.
Yesterday, on tax day, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in MeadWestvaco Corp. v. Illinois Department of Revenue, holding that an Illinois appellate court had gone well beyond constitutional limits in allowing the State of Illinois to tax part of a capital gain resulting from Mead's $1.5 billion sale in 1994 of Lexis/Nexis. The full opinion is here. On January 16, the day of oral arguments, Julie McGuire and Tom Welshonce previewed MeadWestvaco in "Boundary Flare-Up: U.S. Supreme Court Revisits Constitutional Limitation on States’ Power to Tax". We'll soon post more on yesterday's decision.
Posted by JD Hull at 12:00 AM | Comments (0)
April 15, 2008
"How to Blog like a Canadian"
By Steve Matthews at Stem's Law Firm Web Strategy blog. Matthews is also a member of the respected Canadian legal blogging co-op, Slaw.
Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 11:59 PM | Comments (0)
Real Piracy
See "Yo Ho Ho and a Bottle of Rum" at Transnational Law Blog and "The Jolly Roger Still Flies" at IntLawGrrls.
Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 11:59 PM | Comments (0)
The enduring Duke lacrosse experience
"Write something on the Duke Experience, that's all I ask," my editor was always telling me.
--W. Morris in "Making the Nut at Duke", Duke Chanticleer, Vol. II, 1975
The lacrosse case never really ended. See at The Chronicle, Duke's student daily, "City attorneys argue for ethics rule in lax suit" re: the 38 unindicted members of the 2005-2006 men's lacrosse team who have brought a civil suit. And see KC Johnson's stalwart Durham-in-Wonderland.
Posted by JD Hull at 11:54 PM | Comments (0)
Life after--or instead of--law.
At the ABA Journal's Law News Now, see "Lawyer Hated Securities Practice, But Loves Fox News", about new Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly.
Posted by JD Hull at 08:29 PM | Comments (0)
Recycling Is 2% of U.S. GDP?
We're all ears--but really? See Environmental Protection and the mentioned April 2 report of Progressive Investor.
Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 12:59 AM | Comments (0)
April 14, 2008
Jennifer TV
Former news anchor Jennifer Antkowiak's show "Jennifer" is on Sundays at 11 AM EST. See www.jennifertvshow.com
Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 11:59 PM | Comments (0)
May Day: DePaul Ethics Symposium in Chicago.
The DePaul Business and Commercial Law Journal of the DePaul University College of Law, together with the Commercial Law League of America, will be hosting its Sixth Annual Symposium on Thursday, May 1 from 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the Westin Michigan Avenue in Chicago. The theme is "Lawyers, Law Firms, & the Legal Profession: An Ethical View of the Business of Law". There are four panels, including "The Roberts Court, the 2008 Election & the Future of the Judiciary".
Posted by Brooke Powell at 11:59 PM | Comments (2)
Be excellent--not perfect.
Ah, devil perfectionism: the great destroyer of gifted young lawyers.
Posted by JD Hull at 11:59 PM | Comments (0)
Cincinnati's P&G gets wiggy.
Reuters: "Procter & Gamble plans hip-hop music foray" with its Tag body sprays. Yeah, they bad.
Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 11:59 PM | Comments (0)
Blawg Review #155: Bad Poetry Day
Greg May hosts this week's Blawg Review #155 at The California Blog of Appeal.
Posted by Brooke Powell at 11:59 PM | Comments (0)