In January, the United States Sentencing Commission released proposed amendments to the Sentencing Guidelines, which included amendments to those guidelines that relate to the sentencing of organizations accused and convicted of criminal wrongdoing (ie, the "Organizational Sentencing Guidelines").  ...

Image via Wikipedia Andersen’s disease is a type of glycogen storage disease. This indicates that it is an autosomal recessive metabolic disorder. It is an inborn, hereditary error of metabolism that is characterized by a deficiency in glycogen debranching enzymes. Instead of glycogen, an abn ...

Image via Wikipedia Andersen’s disease is a type of glycogen storage disease. This indicates that it is an autosomal recessive metabolic disorder. It is an inborn, hereditary error of metabolism that is characterized by a deficiency in glycogen debranching enzymes. Instead of glycogen, an abn ...

In a recent post on Mashable called "The tao of Tweeting" Soren Gordhamer looks at some of the lessons that could be learned from the ancient chinese book the Tao te Ching The four lessons that Soren has identified are:Show versus tell - or how we should provide good, quality information related to ...

Soren Anderson will present the seminar at the Agricultural, Food, & Resource Economics (AFRE) Brown Bag at Michigan State University, Tuesday, November 17th, Noon - 1:00pm, 75 Agriculture Hall. The seminar is titled, Using Loopholes to Reveal the Marginal Cost of Regulation: The Case of Fuel-Eco ...

The title of this post is the title of by Professor Ellen Podgor.  Here is the abstract: an important and timely new piece When one thinks of “wrongful convictions and reliability in the criminal justice process” one often thinks of street crime convictions of defendants later proven innocent ...

Los Angeles County and City officials say that they plan to crack down on medical marijuana dispensaries selling pot over-the-counter. The move resembles recent crackdowns in San Diego, with law enforcement targeting marijuana dispensaries they claim are illegally operating for profit. Recentl ...

When one files a petition in bankruptcy, ownership of assets is upended.  Some if not all assets of the debtor become part of the estate, and will be used to pay creditors.  A current cause of action in legal malpractice, even if not reduced to a law suit is one such asset.  What happ ...

Sometimes we find a stimulating discussion of a principal of legal malpractice in decisions concerning other professions.  In this case Sykes v RFD Third Ave. 1 Assoc., LLC ;2009 NY Slip Op 06387 ;Decided on September 8, 2009 ;Appellate Division, First Department ;Moskowitz, J.  we find a ...

No one in the national media is yet focusing much on the upcoming Employment Non-Discrimination Act, and neither the proponents on the left nor the opponents on the rights have said much either. But there is much to be said, and sooner or later, the war of words will begin. The most common argumen ...