Kirk T. Hartley a day ago 1 min The Open Access "Botometer" Assesses Twitter Accounts for "Botness" The "botometer" is an online, open access source for assessing whether a twitter account likely is run by a bot. https://botometer.osome...
Kirk T. Hartley 3 days ago 1 min Mass Tort Estimation Orders: The Bestwall Example for Mesotheliomas A newly entered order in the Bestwall/Georgia Pacific chapter 11 case provides a ruling on some aspects of an estimation process to value...
Kirk T. Hartley 5 days ago 1 min NRA's Chapter 11 - Possible Implications for Mass Torts, Public Policy and Chapter 11 The NRA's chapter 11 filing last week has possible implications for mass torts, public policy and chapter 11 law. Why? Because the NRA is...
Kirk T. Hartley 5 days ago 2 min Gene Mutations are Not Fungible: "How Mutations in a Specific Gene Cause Different Types of Disease" For persons interested in cancer litigation and genetic causes of cancers, a key point to learn and apply is that gene mutations are not ...
Kirk T. Hartley 6 days ago 2 min Judge Rakoff: Directors Sometimes at Risk When Multistep M&A Transactions Lead to Insolvency These are interesting times with respect to corporate transactions related to alleged or actual fraudulent conveyances, whether arising t...
Kirk T. Hartley Jan 13 1 min Best Typo Ever? Online Law Firm Advice in Year 0001? Hmmm - best typo ever? https://www.omm.com/resources/alerts-and-publications/publications/sec-issues-updated-guidance-on-rule-10b5-1-trad...
Kirk T. Hartley Jan 11 1 min Trump Must Go Now, But Not Much Courage or Leadership in Big Law For the record, I'm calling for immediate removal of President Trump, via either the 25th Amendment or impeachment. With that on the reco...
Kirk T. Hartley Jan 8 1 min PACER Hacked: "Sealed U.S. Court Records Exposed in SolarWinds Breach" More to think about from the SolarWinds hack. A January 7, 2021 blog post from a nationally known cybersecurity expert (Brian Krebs) pic...
Kirk T. Hartley Jan 6 1 min Another History Lesson and a Chuckle: The 2020 Year End Report by Chief Justice Roberts The year end reports of Chief Justice Roberts often include a history lesson, and a chuckle or two. His year end report for 2020 provides...
Kirk T. Hartley Jan 5 1 min "Prime" Litigation Against Web Site Sellers? "Holding Amazon Liable As a Seller of Defective Goods" A new article from Professor Catherine M. Sharkey lays out a modern rationale for lawsuits seeking to hold Amazon liable as a settler of ...
Kirk T. Hartley Nov 2, 2020 2 min What Will Covid Do to Life in 2021? New Modeling of Variables (Efficacy, Use, and Masks) Are you wondering about the joint effect of the possible variables of vaccine effectiveness, distribution of them, and mask wearing? A new...
Kirk T. Hartley Nov 1, 2020 1 min Resharing: Shameless Plug: Reed Smith’s Virtual Life Sciences CLE Week Life sciences business are part of the increasingly important intersection between science and law. Accordingly, it's a pleasure to resha...
Kirk T. Hartley Sep 7, 2020 3 min Professor Feinman's Latest: "A User’s Guide to the Restatement of the Law, Liability Insurance" It's most interesting and encouraging to see Professor Jay Feinman publish a new paper that frankly addresses the pressures exerted on in...
Kirk T. Hartley Sep 1, 2020 1 min Webinar on Ethical and Legal Challenges in Lawsuits Involving Young People with Mesothelioma For first of its kind new data related to the growing number of lawsuits involving young people with mesothelioma, please join next week'...
Kirk T. Hartley Aug 20, 2020 1 min Sunshine has Value - Chapter 11 Investigation Yields Proof of Attempted Bid Rigging by a Hedge Fund It is good to see bankruptcy courts authorizing more investigations into chapter 11 backstories. Here, under investigation, a hedge fund ...
Kirk T. Hartley Aug 17, 2020 2 min State AppellateJudges Hear a Proposed Refined Framework for Analysis of Confidentiality Agreements A new item at SSRN is a paper on analytical frameworks for thinking about confidentiality agreements in litigation. It's interesting in p...
Kirk T. Hartley Aug 6, 2020 1 min Litigation Funding 2020 - "Best Practices" Recommendations by the American Bar Association The litigation funding industry is an undeniable and growing force in the US, and in other countries. The industry began its rise in the ...
Kirk T. Hartley Aug 4, 2020 1 min New Evidence of Virus Induced Cancers - EBV and Gastric Cancers Over time, litigators dealing with cancer issues will need to become more attuned to asking plaintiffs and their doctors more questions a...
Kirk T. Hartley Jul 29, 2020 1 min 1 Million Seldom Reused Acronyms in Scientific Literature Abstracts and Titles Does the existence of 1 million seldom used acronyms suggest excessive use of acronyms in scientific publishing? That's a conclusion one ...
Kirk T. Hartley Jul 27, 2020 1 min Will New Coronavirus Legislation Reflect Any Attention to Law Firm PPP $ and Mass Tort Advertising? For both defense and plaintiff firms, the notable flow of PPP money to law firms raises its own set of questions regarding Congress' int...
Kirk T. Hartley Jul 23, 2020 1 min Better Scientific Tools Can Unearth More Harms - Kidney Condition Linked to Silica Exposure One result of better scientific tools can be the identification of additional conditions related to a substance that can be harmful. A r...
Kirk T. Hartley Jul 15, 2020 1 min PPP Dollars Flow to Plaintiff and Defense Asbestos Litigation Firms Around Madison County/St. Louis The asbestos litigation industry is always interesting to think about at the macro economic level. Now that PPP numbers were finally disc...
Kirk T. Hartley Jul 13, 2020 1 min Criminal Law Against Genetic Discrimination Upheld by Supreme Court of Canada The growing real world importance of genomics is illustrated by yet another ruling involving issues at an intersection between genomics a...
Kirk T. Hartley Jun 29, 2020 1 min Covid's Evolution Highlights the Value of Genomic Epidemiology for Covid Risk Analyses Genomic epidemiology continues to prove its importance.Researchers using genomic analyses tools are finding much more of the "G" version ...
