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Organize Your Data to Combat Alternative Facts

A fact is an assertion backed by evidence. An alternative fact shows its true face as fiction when it meets the evidence.
6 minute read

National Law Journal

Commentary: At High Court, Fight Over Textualism Lives On

When Justice Kagan declared at a 2015 “Scalia Lecture” at Harvard Law School that “we are all textualists now,” she may have been a bit premature.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Court Refuses to Dismiss Case as Untimely Where No Rational Argument for Dismissal Is Found

As any practitioner knows, there are going to be times in your career where your opponent thinks they have you dead to rights. A “gotcha” moment, if you will. We have all been there, chest puffing, brooding with confident that no court in the world could see things any other way but your way.
6 minute read

The American Lawyer

LSAT Takers Hit 16-Year High, But Most Grads Regret Going to Law School

Why is law school popular again? One theory is the Trump effect, which is that people are so morally and politically outraged by the direction of the country that they want to go to law school to set things right.
5 minute read

Delaware Business Court Insider

Del. Supreme Court Limits Stockholder Ratification of Director Compensation

Over the past several years, the Delaware Court of Chancery has applied the stockholder ratification defense in challenges to director compensation awards made pursuant to stockholder approved equity incentive plans (EIPs).
6 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

1 More Civil War Statue for Forgotten Hero

Mississippi should commission the creation of a new statue to recognize a real state hero, Hiram Robles Revels, to be placed in the National Statuary Hall as the first black U.S. senator to serve.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

E-Discovery Ethics: It's Still—And Always Will Be—About Doing Tech Right

In Klipsch Group v. ePRO E-Commerce, No. 16-3637-cvNo. 16-3726-cv (2d Cir. Jan. 25), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the Southern District of New York's order that “the likely valuation of actual damages” in the matter was “$25,000,” the defendant had to pay the plaintiff $2.68 million as “compensation” for “additional discovery efforts” the plaintiff had to take because of the defendant's misconduct.
15 minute read

National Law Journal

Opinion: MSU Faces Legal Risk as Culpability Questions Are Raised in the Nassar Scandal

MSU is in the public eye as the survivors of Nassar's abuse are beginning to question why the school refused to act after many of them came forward to report his misconduct.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

It's Time for Attorneys to Wake Up and Recognize Change

I am always confounded by colleagues who believe that their education ended the day they received their law degrees or that they cannot adapt to learning new things, such as a new area of law, a new procedure for doing things or any other “new” topic you might think of.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Time Has Been Up: Why Your Firm Shouldn't Just Be 'Talking' About Diversity and Inclusion

With the recent #MeToo and #TimesUp movements aimed at sexual harassment in the workplace, and employers facing more and more discrimination lawsuits, it is time that employers face the fact that we need diversity and inclusion in our workplace in order to succeed.
8 minute read

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