It’s undeniable: social media use has permeated our culture. People are sharing information about all aspects of their lives via social networking sites. Some of these disclosures are broadcast publicly while others are limited to select friends and followers.
Read More »Commentary: Redefining expert witness credibility for juries
Juries routinely dismiss expert testimony due to credibility problems, incomprehensibility, or simply because it is cancelled out by another expert’s testimony.
Read More »Commentary: Strip-search case reflects death of privacy
To be the swing voter, you have to be willing to swing. In the last three weeks, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy has shown how it’s done.
Read More »Commentary: Groupon IPO scandal is sleaze that’s legal
Here’s an unsettling fact for anyone thinking of ever buying shares in a newly public company: Even if its executives know their internal accounting systems are a wreck, they aren’t required to disclose this until after the company goes public.
Read More »Commentary: How social media shaped the Trayvon Martin case
In the killing of Trayvon Martin, the angel and the devil of social media have discovered the perfect battlefield.
Read More »Commentary: Employers struggle with NLRB’s new rules
As the number of private sector unionized workers was increasing in 2011 from 7.1 million to 7.2 million workers, the National Labor Relations Board was busy implementing new game changing rules that have the potential to further increase union influence in the private sector.
Read More »Commentary: Court should see economic sense on health care
When the sun hits the brilliant white marble of the Supreme Court building on a clear spring day, it is so bright you can’t look at it. Thus illuminated, the court becomes the sun: the epicenter of the Washington world.
Read More »Commentary: Court reporter takes umbrage with ‘hatred of the Mask’; sets record straight
I, along with many of my professional colleagues, read with great interest a commentary by Lisa Henderson-Newlin, “No disguising this attorney’s hatred of the Mask,” in the Feb. 29 issue.
Read More »Commentary: The cold facts about getting sick
What is the most important tool in the lawyer’s arsenal? Is it the suit? The favorite tie or scarf accessory? Or is it simply the ability to put two thoughts together and to focus on a concept, for better or for worse?
Read More »Commentary: Text a little less and think a little more
If you’ve suspected lately that your family’s mobile-phone bill is driven entirely by your 15-year- old, you are probably right.
Read More »Commentary: Rising crude prices tap into a barrel of nonsense
There is nothing, and I mean nothing, like rising crude-oil prices to make sensible people go all wobbly in the head. Economists fail to differentiate between cause and effect.
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