High Court: The U.S. Supreme Court added eight cases to its docket next term, agreeing to review suits that raise issues including pregnancy discrimination, religious speech and false-claims actions during wartime, The National Law Journal reports. Also, the high court has been issuing a slew of 9-0 opinions, but The Washington Post notes that “such cases can mask deeper conflicts, and those were on display in the term’s finale this week.”
Bad Investment: Litigation finance firm Burford Capital in 2010 invested $4 million to back Patton Boggs in a controversial pollution lawsuit against Chevron, only to extricate itself swiftly when the case went sour. Burford’s chief executive officer, Christopher Bogart, a former general counsel of Time Warner, discussed the fallout from the Ecuadorian experience with Bloomberg Businessweek. ”The principal lesson learned,” Bogart says, “is that even terrific lawyers at great law firms can lose their objectivity and professional detachment when caught up in matters about which they feel passionately.”
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