Some recent reading reminded me that the Conversable Economist blog includes an October 23,  2013 post that provides a very useful...

Lots of efforts to project asbestos litigation involve efforts to understand and forecast filing patterns, and resolution rates.  On that...

A new litigation funder (Ralph Sutton CEO  Validity Finance), offered five predictions in a November 27, 2018 article at American...

More and more molecular data will arrive over the next few years; some of it will be very valuable for more deeply understanding when and...

Weekend reading led to an interesting, long form story on the private, automated and apparently  arbitrary and capricious world of  “law”...

An answer to the question, and some good background, is set out in a December 14, 2018 article at StatNews. What’s a polygenic risk score...

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce (via its American Tort Reform Foundation) has issued the 2018-19 version of its annual “Judicial Hellholes”...

“Nationwide, 14% of law-school enrollees are pursuing non-J.D. programs, newly released numbers from the American Bar Association show,...

With trial court approval of a settlement, the parties are close to reaching the end of the long and winding road of the Avery case. ...

A brilliant new study on parachute use was recently published in the British Journal of Medicine. The researchers/authors presumably will...

The robocalling epidemic is an example of the complete failure of federal and state regulation and enforcement, the failure of litigation...

Over the last couple of years, defense oriented commentators have used the meme “event driven securities litigation” as part of...

Yes, there is medical malpractice as to genomic information. The first real study on the topic is from ASU’s Gary Marchant (PhD in...

Another step forward is happening in the effort to find lung cancers early.  It’s an early detection study – in the UK – using both...

It’s an interesting week for thinking about risk. As it happens, I’m presenting on lethal diseases and “real world evidence” at the...

The latest global failure of cyber security is covered in detail in a November 30, 2018 post at Krebs on Security, and is headline news...

A press release yesterday brought news of an interesting next step in the process of increasing the intersections between law and...

A detailed data driven study of securities lawsuits before and after Morrison is the subject of a new paper by Professor Davidoff Solomon...

In sum, like so many businesses today, Stub Hub has failed to invest enough to block fraud, and instead simply shifts the risk to...