The litigation industry today magnet stars. Erin Brokovich is one – she attracts calls from angry, scared people, and she has...

"Secret arbitrations." Good, bad or otherwise, Delaware’s famed Chancery Court last year adopted rules permitting secret arbitrations...

Erionite is an asbestos-like mineral, and has caused devastating mesothelioma clusters in three towns in Turkey. Now the mineral is...

Now we have trial by video, sometimes. The Illinois Supreme Court does not allow television in trial courts, but has now explicitly...

The WSJ includes two new articles on litigation funding, with both by Vanessa O’Connell. The first article covers new, private entrants...

The litigation industry includes myriad lawsuits regarding alleged misdealing by various financial houses with respect to the issuance of...

Good, bad, or otherwise, it’s a fact of life that there is significant business in marketing views on both sides of the litigation...

The September 22, 2011 New York Times includes this interesting article on the aggregate value of bankruptcy claim trading. The numbers...

Update to Post of September 11, 2011: Insurers have now dismissed – without prejudice – their new lawsuit involving 9/11. AmLaw has the...

The BBC has the story on new dust and lung injury litigation filed in London on behalf of South African miners. The suit is the latest in...

The US Chamber of Commerce and others frequently advocate to limit or abolish punitive damages evidence and awards. An example is this...

The Financial Times today includes an article focusing on Basel and capital requirements for uber banks. Written by Tom Braithwaite in...

Reuters’ Unstructured Finance blog has now published thoughts/a fairly detailed article on using the asbestos trust solution for the...

Apparently we’ve now thoroughly Americanized Iran. The Tehran Times newspaper now includes mesothelioma marketing. Click here to view it....

The September 11 attacks and resulting deaths are remembered today in many human ways far more important than money. But for the...

Critics of the litigation industry often complain that lawsuits are used to create change instead of leaving all issues to other branches...

If at first you don’t succeed, try try try again. That old proverb is relevant to understanding the world of change through legislative...

The SEC’s new online whistleblower office is open for tips on securities law violations. Good – let’s hope they ferret out more...

Sheri Qualters authored this interesting article in the National Law Journal on changing dynamics in a specific portion of today’s...

Video-taped depositions create interesting media situations related to mass tort claims. For example, BP’s former CEO was deposed in...