As mentioned last week, the Illinois Supreme Court recently amended many of their rules. One major change has been an amendment to Rule 212 that controls the purposes for which discovery depositions are used. It is important to delineate for …
Attenuated Expert Testimony Should Be Inadmissible
In the majority of personal injury cases, treating physicians will often testify as experts regarding the current and future costs of treatment for a Plaintiff. While this is not out of the ordinary, the problem with these types of experts …
Death and Discovery Deps.
I recently began practicing in Chicago (took the bar this past July). During my first week of practice I found something amazing. If you filed a case in Illinois before 2011, and a party is deposed in a discovery deposition, …
Turning a Blind Eye to Convenience: Forum Non Conveniens and the Second Circuit’s Ignorance of the New York Convention
Figueiredo Ferraz E Engenharia de Projeto Ltda. v. Republic of Peru 2011 WL 6188497 INTRODUCTION In 2011, the Second Circuit took up the issue of Forum Non Conveniens in a case involving the enforcement of an arbitration award …
Anything For a Vote: Copyright Law and Political Campaigns
INTRODUCTON The use of music and images to convey a political message is as old as political campaigning itself and presidential politics is the king of copyright co-optation. George Washington’s campaign used a version of Hail to the King …
Music In Political Campaigns
I’ve been writing a paper on the use of music and images in political campaigning for the past few weeks. In my research I stumbled upon this great NPR article: Music In Political Campaigns 101 : The Record : NPR. I’d …
New York Okays Groupon in Ethics Opinion
I wrote last week about a St. Louis lawyer using Groupon to attract clients. Now the New York State Bar has issued an ethics opinion. According to the recent opinion by the NY Bar Association Committee on Ethics: A lawyer …
Using Groupon To Attract Clients
Last year, according to SoloPracticeU, St. Louis attorney Craig S. Redler used Groupon to advertise a discount for will and power of attorney services. Before doing so he consulted the Missouri Bar Association which approved the use of Groupon as …
Is the Legal Recession Over?
There’s a great post over at Above the Law about the end of the legal recession with predictions from the writers. While the recovery from recession has been slow, both the finance and legal sectors actually shed jobs in 2011 according …
How to Not Get Clients 101
I’ve spent a good part of my free time today watching legal advertising. Usually it’s hilariously bad. It reminds me of watching the high school news casts in the mornings before classes started. Everyone was just awful. But the two …