Comments on the Latest Developments in Mississippi Civil Litigation
I recently wrote about the change in law firm structures here.
Several readers emailed me and pointed out I did not discuss the effect of corporate mergers or the impact of companies adopting ‘the Dupont legal model’.
Here is some background for current and future lawyers under age 40. When I graduated from law school…
In my last post I discussed a Wall Street Journal article covering the difficulties of partnership at big law firms. Now I will discuss why making partner in a big firm does not mean what it did 40-50 years ago. This is a brief overview. A book could be written on this subject.
The article…
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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