Who knew ? An appellate court in Australia apparently blazed a trail by approving use of Facebook for service of process in a case where...

Who gets the money – that’s an important issue for tort lawyers and is not always a simple subject.     For example, mass tort claims...

Here’s an example of the litigation industry at work. The example is this free website known as the Ace Insurance Litigation Watch....

This WSJ Deal Blog article provides an insightful account of Bank of America buying up predictable web site names that could be used to...

Big law now sees global tort litigation as a big deal. For example, Gibson Dunn just issued a press release touting its global tort work...

The expansion of the Madoff litigation is big news these days. Go here for an AmLaw summary, and here for the NYT’s coverage of the...

Updated with link and opening comments in bold Click here to read James Stengel’s great paper, described below: Litigating in the Field...

A new lawsuit filed by Greenpeace provides the latest example of the extreme and illegal measures used by some (but far from all)...

This on-line article from South Africa provides an update on the efforts of Leigh Day & Co. and the Legal Resources Center of South...

There’s an upcoming, great looking conference December 10, 2010 conference on the globalization of collective litigation. The conference...

Everyone is starting to see the obvious. The cover story of the current issue of American Lawyer dramatizes a private equity firm making a...

At a financial executives meetng which included a talk by the acting FASB chief on FAS 5, an SEC official publicly stated that the SEC...

Update on November 1 post: Big tobacco’s winning streak came to an abrupt end, as predicted below. As described in this Law.com article...

Discovery of social media information is an interesting phenomenon, and very much in the news. It seems to some that it’s about the...

The mortgage litigation industry is evolving in the US. This article from the NYT describes a litigation industry response to banks...

Amazing the things that Google drags up everyday. One is this U.S. law firm website page targeted at carpenters as mesothelioma...

AmLaw’s Alison Frankel has provided this great primer on product defect claims, the economic loss doctrine, and national class actions....

For readers outside of Illinois, the following may offer some insights into the insanity of our judicial elections, and the growing...

This AmLaw article provides a helpful account of a ruling allowing Chevron to depose plaintiff’s counsel. The opinion is here, and is...

Times surely change in the litigation industry. Once upon a time (that is, the late 1980s), the Johns-Manville asbestos claim trust was...