Rogers

July 26, 2005 | Law.com

Courts and litigants are grappling with how to apply discovery rules crafted in an age of paper records to massive amounts of electronic data. Contrary to some of the more alarmist commentary, the sky is not falling, say attorneys Theodore O. Rogers Jr. and Thomas I. Barnett. There are ways of dealing with EDD effectively. Nevertheless, the stakes are high and litigants need to be aware of the particular challenges of dealing with e-data.

By Theodore O. Rogers Jr. and Thomas I. Barnett

13 minute read

December 04, 2006 | National Law Journal

How much can you safely spend in retirement? Or, put more technically, what percentage of your retirement savings can you withdraw each year so that your savings last as long as you do? The answer is key to sound financial planning.

By Robert L. Rogers

9 minute read

July 01, 2005 | The Legal Intelligencer

Morality may represent the way the world should work, but economics explains how it does work. So argue University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt and New York Times reporter Stephen Dubner in their new best seller Freakonomics (William Morrow).

By Robert L. Rogers

8 minute read

October 18, 2000 | Law.com

Following the lead set by Kings County and the Bronx, Suffolk County, New York, has opened its own Domestic Violence Court to increase accountability and address underlying emotional problems of offenders in such volatile cases. The court hears cases involving misdemeanor violent acts between people related by blood, marriage, and those who have children in common or have an intimate relationship.

By Pat Rogers

6 minute read

August 08, 2008 | The Recorder

Editor Robert L. Rogers, a former government lawyer, thinks castigation of Monica Goodling now will dissuade others at the Department of Justice from following her example.

By Robert L. Rogers

6 minute read

July 09, 2007 | New York Law Journal

Pamela Rogers Chepiga, a partner at Allen & Overy, and Lanier Saperstein, an associate at the firm, write that some practitioners argue that receivers, unlike trustees, are not - and should not be - bound by the in pari delicto doctrine/Wagoner rule. However, existing precedent and common-law principles suggest that these doctrines can bar damages suits brought by receivers. There is also no overriding policy reason for why trustees and receivers should be treated differently.

By Pamela Rogers Chepiga and Lanier Saperstein

11 minute read

December 18, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

How much can lawyers safely spend in retirement? Or, put more technically, what percentage of retirement savings can they withdraw each year so that their savings lasts as long as they do?

By Robert L. Rogers

9 minute read

February 25, 2005 | Law.com

Chief Justice William Rehnquist in his early career was "simply indifferent to the situation of African-Americans." As for Justice Antonin Scalia? He "isn't as smart as he thinks he is." So claims Mark Tushnet, a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, in a new book on the Rehnquist court. The book blends such juicy morsels with an academic analysis of the political split on the Supreme Court.

By Robert L. Rogers

8 minute read

December 14, 2009 | Law.com

When it comes to peddling porn, Larry Flynt wants you to know his videos of people having sex are a cut above other smut on the rack. So when two nephews personally groomed by Flynt for the porn business launched their own company using the family name, the creator of "Barely Legal," "Busty Beauties" and "Daddy Gets Lucky" wasted no time suing the upstarts for trademark infringement. "The junk they publish hurts my reputation, which in turn hurts my revenue," the porn king testified in federal court.

By John Rogers

4 minute read

September 11, 2007 | Law.com

When 3,000 law professors gather in January for the annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools, they'll discuss a number of challenges to the status quo, including changing the format of law school, encouraging new forms of scholarship, deciding whether to find new ways for law schools to select students and strengthening the pipeline to public services careers. AALS President Nancy Rogers says the decisions by law schools during the next few years may produce deep changes in legal education.

By Nancy H. Rogers

7 minute read