The plaintiff’s committee has been appointed for the BP MDL litigation. This article lists the lawyers, each appointed for one year. ...

Here is a recent press release issued by Slater & Gordon, an Australian plaintiff’s firm in asbestos litigation. The release focuses on...

This September 23, 2010 district court opinion in Dixon-Rollins v. Experian Information (E.D. Pa.) illustrates why punitive damages...

The ABA Litigation Section is putting on a regional workshop meeting on mass torts. The meeting is October 8 at ExxonMobile in Houston....

The litigation industry apparently includes a new specialty: copyright enforcement by copyright "trolls" that make a business of suing...

Companies sued in other nations sometimes allow the entry of default judgments, apparently sometimes concluding that successor entities...

This story from The Economist explains an academic effort to formally look for "tells" on when executives were lying during investor...

Last week’s posts included this post on two recent Delaware Supreme Court rulings that may expand access to information useful to...

FASB continues to work on Topic 450, a short-hand term accounting and disclosure issues for contingent liabilities, such as risks from...

Two recent opinions from the Delaware Supreme Court provide rules for access to information that may facilitate litigation, depending on...

One conseqence of the litigation industry is that lawyers are increasingly named as defendants by their adversaries in transactions or...

Global growth in the litigation industry seems assured by increasing use of “social media” to publish information regarding participants...

Burford Capital, a litigation funding business, is back in the news, with success. Here is an AmLaw Daily article by Andrew Longstreth...

Here is an article reporting on Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Victoria Chaney ruling on the contentious issues regarding a jury...

The litigation industry is full of spin and efforts to create headlines that influence outcomes. Many of the stories make it to press...

Perspective certainly matters when it comes to influencing the development of legal systems around the globe. On one side, consider some...

When mass disasters strike, litigation starts quickly, in many forums. For a great example in a helpful chart format, go here to see a...

A Law.com article from this morning provides an interesting view of the reality that BP and some other corporate entities are repeat...

An upcoming conference on federal civil litigation at Duke Law School is being advertised by the US Courts as a major conference that...

To my knowledge, back in the 1980s, law school professors were not talking or writing about entrepreneurial growth in court systems or ...