Marc Reiner, a trademark and IP litigator at the New York City law firm of Hand Baldachin & Amburgey LLP has a great holiday card thanks to artist, Arlen Schumer.
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I have been covering the bloodbath that is the disintegration of the market for legal services in the United States for a while now and I revisit the subject again during this slow end-of-year holiday week as I fret over when I will be busy again. Earlier this month, the New York Times reported that […]
Some years ago, waiting my turn for my motion to be heard, I sat in a courtroom and listened to a young lawyer argue a non-meritorious motion to dismiss in a case unrelated to mine. I had no connection with this case. I had not recently done legal research on the issue raised. Even so, the […]
Smith borrows Bank money to buy Property and buys Insurance to protect Property against common risks (like fire). Bank’s loan is secured by Property. Bank has an interest in that Property and requires Smith to carry insurance that also covers Bank as a condition of extending the loan to Smith. Let’s say that Smith is […]
Rather than saying, “your response to this discovery is due in 30 days,” why don’t our court rules require the proponent of discovery to identify a date certain: “Your response to this discovery is due on or before January 18, 2015” (that is, requiring the identification of a specific date (30 days, more or less, from […]
Update (December 18, 2014): Insurers lose coverage battles all the time. They lick their wounds, they cut the checks (to their adversary and to their lawyers, of course), they may change their policy language to avoid similar losses in similar cases and/or maybe they bump up their premiums. In games of chance (is insurance anything but?), […]
Stillwater promotes itself as “the birthplace of Minnesota.” And Minnesota’s Stillwater State Correctional Facility is home to the Prison Mirror, the nation’s oldest, continuously-operated offender newspaper, which “has won many national awards for outstanding penal journalism.” I wonder if former Stillwater mayor Kenneth Frank Harycki will be looking at himself in a prison mirror or penning penal journalism some […]
A few steps down memory lane to December, 2013 brings us to the Minnesota Litigator post about a well-known Minneapolis St. Paul lawyer who noted to a court that he billed 3.04 hours for “reviewing an email regarding dislike for him and the lawsuit and researching how to respond.” This was in the context of a petition […]
A securities fraud class action trial in Minnesota? Really? Anything’s possible but such trials are exceedingly rare. Since 1995, of the hundreds, if not thousands of securities fraud class actions brought over that time period (it seems the average per year might be about 150-165), there may have been fewer than a dozen trials nationwide. So the smart […]