Regulatory Rollback: CFPB’s Withdrawal of Informal Guidance Sparks New Litigation Dynamics – The Consumer Finance Podcast
A Good Lickin'
Key Discovery Points: Exciting eDiscovery Sessions at ILTACON 2025!
Judge Xavier Rodriguez on Possession, Custody, or Control from the Meet and Confer Podcast
Suluki Secrets: Behind the Scenes of Reasonable Investigations — FCRA Focus Podcast
Key Discovery Points: ESI Protocol Objection Denial Party
The Journey of Litigation
False Claims Act Insights - The Mathematics of Nuclear FCA Verdicts
(Podcast) The Briefing: The Wrong Argument – Why Authors Lost Against Meta and What Comes Next
A Counterintuitive Approach to Winning Without Litigation: One-on-One with Haley Morrison
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 319: Spotlight on Torts (Part 3 – Strict and Vicarious Liability)
Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 513: Grappling with AI as a Law Student and Lawyer (1L Summer Series)
Podcast - Part II: The Do’s and Don’ts of Demonstratives
Wire Fraud Litigants Beware: Fourth Circuit Ruling Protects the Banks — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Balch’s Consumer Finance Compass: How Standing Can Make or Break Certification for Class Action Lawsuits in Debt Collection
Podcast - Persistence and Determination
Podcast - Part I - The Do’s and Don’ts of Demonstratives
Podcast - Walking Tall
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 317: Spotlight on Torts (Part 2 – Intentional Torts)
Key Discovery Points: A Judicial Approach to Handling AI-Generated Evidence
And My Pillow may not get a soft landing. I've had artificial intelligence on the brain (get it?) this week, after seeing a recent high profile incident involving the lawyers for Mike Lindell, founder of My Pillow....more
Special guest Professor Alan Trammell of Washington and Lee University School of Law joins us today for a deep dive into universal injunctions and the related topics of associational standing and judicial forum shopping, and...more
For many attorneys, the prospect of a U.S. Supreme Court argument serves as the capstone of a legal career. But for a select few, like Kannon Shanmugam, chair of Paul Weiss’s Supreme Court and Appellate Practice Group,...more
I was a first-year law student participating in moot court, just because all second-year students participated even when I knew I had zero interest in ever being a litigator. In those days, my mother would buy me these cheap...more
There is often something distinctive about the person bringing a case. Whether they are the victim in a discrimination or harassment case, a whistle-blower in an employment case, or a number of other case types, their act of...more
The jurors have made it through the trial, reached their verdict, received their thanks, and are headed to the exits. How do they feel about their experience? What do they think the lawyers did well, and what do they think...more
At long last, the Supreme Court of the United States has joined the rest of the federal court system in adopting electronic filing. As of November 13, 2017, attorneys filing documents with the Court must submit their...more
The principles provide a useful framework for the application of proportionality to preservation, as well as practical guidance for negotiating the scope of discovery. The Sedona Conference — a research and educational...more
Upon creation of multidistrict litigation involving a drug or medical device, companies may contemplate the dreaded “S-Word” —“settlement.” While an early settlement program can sometimes serve as in-house counsel’s best...more
I thought readers might find helpful some broader observations on strategies for defending class actions in 2016... Dig in Deep Early: Some defense counsel are accustomed to the practice of filing a motion to dismiss...more
Consumer protection or unfair and deceptive acts or practices statutes have been enacted in every state in an attempt to protect consumers from predatory, deceptive and unscrupulous business practices. While good intentioned,...more
Because the United States is a non-reciprocating territory, U.S. judgments do not qualify for expedited treatment under Indian civil procedural laws. As a result, the decree-holder must file a new suit to enforce the judgment...more
The current amended Federal Rules of Civil Procedure—and, in particular, those that address the practice of civil discovery—are the product of five years of development, debate, and, of course, dialogue. Now that the Rules...more
Many insurance coverage disputes can be, should be, and are settled without the need for litigation and its attendant costs and distractions. However, some disputes cannot be settled, and organizations are compelled to resort...more
This continues our series of blog posts on trial preparation and presentation as related to class actions. Preparing to try a class action case, in general, encompasses all of the issues and concerns inherent in trying...more
Decisions across the U.S. identify, as one example of “bad appellate advocacy,” presenting too many issues on appeal. The Seventh Circuit applied those words to a brief that presented “12 issues for review—many with...more