A few weeks ago, a client who will be opening a factory in China within a couple of months told me how much he has been learning about China by following people on Twitter and following their news links. He then asked me who if I had a list of "China people" he should be following. I said abou ...

I understand from various sources that preparations are well advanced for the annual meeting of the Canadian Association of Law Libraries. Among other things, the meeting offers an invaluable platform for legal publishers and law librarians to share information with each other. A key element of the ...

Chicago nursing home attorney Steven Levin wrote to the Chicago Tribune to praise them for their commitment to uncovering nursing home abuse. Attorney Levin thought that “Nursing homes’ toll: 86 sex cases, 1 arrest” was a valuable tool for the people of Chicago. He applauded the Tribune’s efforts ...

I’d like to share a new website we soft-launched today for our client Jonathan Rosenfeld.  As you can probably guess from the URL, the site is US-based and provides State-by-State collections of Nursing Home injury laws. Our approach to this website was a bit different than we normally take.  ...

ABA Journal, The Obvious Is Never Simple When Steven Levitt Talks About It: [Steven Levitt gave] the keynote address Saturday night at the 54th Annual Awards Banquet of the Fellows of the American Bar Foundation. ... Levitt, a research professor at the ABF and a professor at the University of...

ABA Journal, The Obvious Is Never Simple When Steven Levitt Talks About It: A few years ago, the Wall Street Journal said, “If Indiana Jones was an economist, he’d be Steven Levitt.” Levitt never quite bought the comparison to the adventure hero from the movies—an archeologist played by Harrison For ...

John Murtha has passed away: Representative John P. Murtha, the longtime Democratic congressman from Pennsylvania, has died at age 77. His aides released a statement saying that he died shortly after 1 p.m. today at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, a suburb of Washington, D.C. Mr. Murtha ha ...

Image via WikipediaPerhaps Publisher Wendy McCaw and Ampersand Publishing, owner of the Santa Barbara (Calif.) News-Press,should have quit while they were ahead.Less than a month after the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit sided with the publisher in an NLRB dispute concerning eigh ...

King & Spalding is adding three partners to its litigation practice. Trial lawyers James J. Capra Jr. and James P. Cusick will join the firm’s New York office and Diana L. Weiss will be resident in the Washington D.C. office. All three are former partners at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcli ...

Jere P. Surber, a professor of philosophy at the University of Denver, is either a world-class satirist who has written a hilarious parody of explanations of the liberal arts professoriate’s liberal bias or (and I suspect much more likely) the author of another attempt at an explanation that is actu ...