John Grisham’s The Appeal starts where most legal thrillers end — with the verdict — and then proceeds to take away every bit of righteous triumph the opening provides. In a Mississippi courtroom, a jury hands down a multimillion-dollar punitive-damages ...
Read More »Bonding produces Stockholm syndrome at deposition
Despite my best efforts, some of my witnesses fall prey to the deposition version of the Stockholm syndrome. The Stockholm syndrome, of course, is the psychological phenomenon that sometimes affects kidnap victims and hostages, including some of those forced to ...
Read More »Bonding becomes kiss of death at deposition
Despite my best efforts, some of my witnesses fall prey to the deposition version of the Stockholm syndrome. The Stockholm syndrome, of course, is the psychological phenomenon that sometimes affects kidnap victims and hostages, including some of those forced to ...
Read More »John Grisham’s bad guys poison rivers, buy judges
John Grisham’s “The Appeal” starts where most legal thrillers end — with the verdict — and then proceeds to take away every bit of righteous triumph the opening provides. In a Mississippi courtroom, a jury hands down a multimillion-dollar punitive-damages ...
Read More »Labor Board’s e-mail ruling a good one for employers
The National Labor Relations Board’s heavily anticipated decision on employee use of employer e-mail systems for union organizing is a good one for employers. But the protection offered by the case — The Guard Publishing Co. dba the (Eugene) Register-Guard ...
Read More »What happens in men’s room, stays in men’s room
You enter the stall of a department store bathroom to use it for its intended purpose. What you don’t know is that a cop and a store employee are peering at you through a ceiling vent. Would you find that ...
Read More »Napier: The hours are long, but the game is fun again
Well, well, well. Watch out what you wish for. It’s 12:13 a.m., and I just e-mailed a motion to a judge on a criminal matter going to trial Tuesday. I doled out some legal advice to a friend and client ...
Read More »The hours are long, but the game is fun again
Well, well, well. Watch out what you wish for. It’s 12:13 a.m., and I just e-mailed a motion to a judge on a criminal matter going to trial Tuesday. I doled out some legal advice to a friend and client ...
Read More »NLRB’s e-mail ruling a good one for employers
The National Labor Relations Board’s heavily anticipated decision on employee use of employer e-mail systems for union organizing is a good one for employers. But the protection offered by the case – The Guard Publishing Co. dba The (Eugene, Ore.) ...
Read More »Woolner: What happens in men's room, stays in men's room
You enter the stall of a department store bathroom to use it for its intended purpose. What you don’t know is that a cop and a store employee are peering at you through a ceiling vent. Would you find that ...
Read More »What does Goldman know that we don’t?
In retrospect, the most intriguing subplot in the collapse of the subprime mortgage market has been not the size of the losses but their distribution. Wall Street firms have a talent for getting themselves into trouble together. They all were ...
Read More »