You wait ages for an interesting legal costs decision from the Court of Appeal and then two come along together.Both cases concerned a similar issue as to the extent of a costs judge’s discretion to limit costs in a manner that appears to go beyond a strict reading of the final costs order.In Drew v ...

What's Happening and When in 2010 Last year brought many changes in labor and employment law. Expect more of the same in 2010. Join our experienced attorneys for an informative breakfast discussing all of the hot topics that will affect you and your employees:My head hurts... the new laws in effec ...

Parental alienation is one of the most common, and most difficult to prove, complaints a family law attorney gets from a client. Clients often, and not without justification, allege that the other party is actively trying to interfere and undermine their relationship with their child. The sad part ...

Do you need to improve your legal research skills? If so, please attend the following workshops that we are offering for free for ASU law students. All workshops begin at noon in the law library classroom. Wednesday, Feb 17 - Getting started with your research Friday, February 26 - Researching fed ...

EEOC had alleged that Sears maintained an inflexible workers’ compensation leave exhaustion policy and terminated employees instead of providing them with reasonable accommodations for their disabilities, in violation of the ADA. The case resulted in the largest ADA settlement in a single lawsuit ...

Aaron Porter's keynote was good -- very fluent, very political (he's vice-president (HE) with the National U. of Students), nicely balanced and with a great last line. What he said about induction and feedback (re the NSS) was undeniable --...

I like it when rumors by my tipsters are validated, it makes me feel like all is well with the world.So John Pacenti's article on Pete Prieto's move from defense lawyer at H&K to full-time plaintiff's lawyer at Podhurst was satisfying:“Working in a litigation boutique is considered by many to be the ...

By Allison Jones THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — When a 15-year-old boy, whose death would prompt major reviews of school safety, lay dying at the bottom of a stairwell in his high school no one realized at first that he had been shot, a Toronto court heard Wednesday. Jordan Manners was lying not in a ...

As we've blogged in the past (see, e.g., here, here, & here) the question of genocide in Darfur remained an open one. The Appeals Chamber of the ICC recently ruled that the Pre-Trial Chamber had erred in a prior ruling when it failed to confirm the genocide counts proposed by the Prosecution aga ...

There has been a lot of discussion lately about reforming the Senate's rules. This isn't especially surprising. The same party controls the presidency and has majorities in both houses of Congress, and the Senate minority has been using the veto powers it enjoys under the Senate rules to block some ...