Comments on the Latest Developments in Mississippi Civil Litigation
Sara Randazzo’s Wall Street Journal article about pay and structure differences at big law firms has been getting a lot of attention. The article is a masterpiece and is a must read for people interested in how big firms operate.
This is the first of multiple posts about the issues the article raises.
It opens:…
Regular readers of this blog will notice that the layout has changed. The reason for the new layout is so the blog is mobile friendly and can be easily read on smart phones.
Truthfully, updating to a mobile friendly blog layout was not a priority for me. Lexblog, which hosts my blog, updated the site…
Every day. That’s how often I am targeted in some sort of scam attempt.
The majority of the scam attempts are emails that go into my junk folder that I never see. But plenty make it into my inbox. Like this email received this morning:
We are electronics components manufacturer and distributor located at Saitama-shi,
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This recent news about the comptroller of a New Orleans law firm stealing $2 million from the firm reminded me how common employee embezzlement is in the legal industry.
I have several friends over the years who were victims of employee embezzlement. Invariably, it was the last employee they would have suspected who was doing…
Most Michael Cohen/ Donald Trump stories call Cohen Trump’s former fixer. That worries me.
If there’s anything solo and small firm lawyers don’t need, it’s more people calling wanting a lawyer to fix their problem.
Most people aren’t Donald Trump. Regular people with regular problems have to fix their own problems. A lawyer can’t fix…
This post is a follow up on a 2014 post about civil filings in Mississippi. Cliff Johnson, the Director of the MacArthur Justice Center at Ole Miss Law School, provided me with these updated statistics: Civil Cases filed 2001 – July 2018 .
Another helpful document for analyzing filings is the Mississippi Supreme Court’s Annual…
A proposed amendment to Fed. R. Civ. P. 30(b)(6) is drawing fire from the defense bar and their clients. Here is the proposed amendment: FRCP 30(b)(6).
Here is the Lawyers for Civil Justice’s comment: Lawyers for Civil Justice Comment.
Lawyers for Civil Justice is a national coalition of corporations, law firms and defense…
Above the Law posted about Michelle Obama telling Oprah how great being a lawyer was how terrible document review is:
…she preaches about the soul-crushing nature of document review. “I was doing document production in Washington, D.C., and I was like, ‘I can’t do this for the rest of my life. I can’t sit in
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Altman Weil recently released: 2018 Law Firms in Transition, an Altman Weil Flash Survey.
From the introduction, comparing today to 2009 during the Great Recession:
The threat in 2018 is broader and more nuanced, arising primarily from the sweeping force of technology evolution over the last two decades that has resulted in the commoditization and
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I’ve been working out in the afternoon at a gym with a wall of TVs in the cardio room. A TV is tuned into each of the local channels and the popular cable channels. I find myself mystified by the number of lawyer commercials.
Both the number of commercials and the number of different law…