• Home

  • About The Author

  • Blog

  • More

    Use tab to navigate through the menu items.
    Masthead.jpg

    The Intersection Among Torts, Science, Corporate Law, Insurance & Bankruptcy

    global tort logo.png

    GlobalTort

    • All Posts
    • 2008-09 Financial Fiascos
    • 50 State Surveys
    • Africa
    • Agent Orange
    • Alternative Fee Structures for Liti
    • Aiding + Abetting
    • Apportionment of Fault
    • Antitrust
    • Amphibole Fibers
    • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
    • Asbestos
    • Asbestos Bankruptcy
    • Asbestos Books
    • Asbestos litigation
    • Asbestos Mining
    • Asbestos Litigation Games
    • Asbestos Trusts
    • Asbestos Uses
    • Asbestos Photos
    • Attorneys' Fee Awards
    • Asian Litigation
    • Asia
    • Bad Faith
    • Australia
    • Big data and product liability
    • Benzene
    • Bankruptcy
    • Cancer
    • Cancer Drugs and Insurance
    • Caps on Damages
    Search
    This Week - Planning Underway for Fourth Edition of the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence
    Kirk T. Hartley
    • Feb 22, 2021
    • 1 min

    This Week - Planning Underway for Fourth Edition of the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence

    Planning continues this week for the Fourth Edition of the federal Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence. The event is an open access...
    34 views0 comments
    Kirk Hartley
    • Aug 13, 2018
    • 1 min

    In Federal Court, When Is An Affidavit A Declaration Even if Not Notarized?

    Time and again,  litigators experience hassles with a witness obtaining notarization of a signature. That sometimes leads to submission...
    0 views0 comments
    Kirk Hartley
    • May 15, 2018
    • 1 min

    Nathan Schactman Asks: “P-Values: Pernicious or Perspicacious?”

    Statistical analysis tools remain topics that are comfortable for relatively few lawyers. One of them is Nathan Schactman. In a new blog...
    0 views0 comments
    Kirk Hartley
    • Dec 31, 2016
    • 1 min

    Exotic Bats on the Moon: A Coda on the Hearsay Rule and Ancient Documents Exception

    Nathan Schactman added a coda to his prior post on the probable demise of the ancient document exception to the rule against hearsay....
    0 views0 comments
    Kirk Hartley
    • Dec 30, 2016
    • 1 min

    2017 May Bring an End to the US Federal Version of the Ancient Document Hearsay Exception

    2016 has been quite the year, and it looks as if 2017 could be quite the year. To close out this year, a link to Nathan Schactman’s...
    0 views0 comments
    Kirk Hartley
    • Oct 28, 2015
    • 1 min

    The WV Mine Explosion as an Example of the Intersection of Criminal Law and Torts

    A news article on the criminal trial from the West Virginia mine explosion provides a concrete example of how limits on trial evidence...
    0 views0 comments
    Kirk Hartley
    • Oct 8, 2014
    • 2 min

    In a First Bell Weather MDL Case, the Trial Judge Rules that Evidence is Admissible Regarding Other

    In a mass tort MDL trial, what evidence can/should jurors here regarding 1) other MDL cases involving the same product and 2) plaintiff...
    2 views0 comments

    GlobalTort

    Privacy Policy | Disclaimer

    About Kirk

    ​

    Since becoming a lawyer in 1983, Kirk’s 35+ years of practice have focused on advising a wide range of corporations, associations, and individuals (as both plaintiffs and defendants) on both tort and commercial law issues centered around “mass torts.”

    ​

    ​

    Read More...

    Copyright © 2020, GlobalTort All Rights Reserved.