Dr. Adam Feldman
Posts by Dr. Adam Feldman
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Courts
Concurrences Are All the Rage
The justices clearly assert their uniqueness with their concurrences and as this is on display, they show how the justices may be more different than meets the eye. -
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SEC v. Jarkesy: Another 5th Circuit Decision Under Supreme Court Scrutiny
We recently used Optimized Legal Audio (OLA) to try to read the tea leaves on the audio footprint of the SEC v. Jarkesy case. Here are the results. - Sponsored
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Courts, Technology
Generating Predictions For Grants Pass v. Johnson Using Artificial Intelligence
Optimized Legal Audio is an artificial intelligence engine in its infancy that tries to hear what judges say, read the language they use, and through this to infer their relative preference for one attorney’s argument over another’s.
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The Most Harmony At The Beginning Of A Term In The Modern Supreme Court
Just how different is the start of this term compared with past terms? -
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Charting The Justices’ Decisions Cutting Across Ideological Lines
Will the current Court be able to shed its stereotype of an ideological body with a strong conservative bent? -
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Are The Justices Still Party Players?
Why do the justices divide in their votes and to what extent is this divergence based on political factors? -
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The Circuit Barrage: The Justices’ Divergent Votes Based On Lower Courts
Qualitatively, the justices do not always seem eye to eye. This post looks at the individual justices’ practices and votes in relation to each of the federal circuit courts of appeal. -
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Measuring Oral Arguments In The 2023/2024 Term
When are the justices engaged? Which justices interact with one another during arguments? How will all of this play out when opinions are finally released? - Sponsored
How Savvy Lawyers Build Their Law Firm Rate Sheet
Many attorneys are clueless. Here's how you can avoid being one of them. -
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What’s The Holdup In OT 2023?
Who should we expect to author the next set of the Court’s decisions? There are a few ways to derive a prediction for this. -
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The Echo Chamber Grows
With only a few spots at this upper echelon of Supreme Court practice, how do attorneys get repeat player experience? -
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O’Connor & The Court: Breaking The Supreme Court’s Glass Ceiling
O’Connor was notable for much more than her gender — she was quite unique in nuanced ways, some of which went well under the radar. -
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Passing The Oral Argument Torch
Justice Jackson is something like we’ve never seen in oral argument. While she doesn’t significantly diminish the participation of her colleagues, she is by far the most active justice at oral argument. -
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And We’re Off To The Races At The Supreme Court
Justice Jackson is far ahead of the rest of the justices in terms of word counts from oral arguments. But do (or why do) word counts matter?
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Trust The Process: How To Build And Manage Workflows In Law Firms
If you’re feeling inefficient but don’t know why, this episode of the Non-Eventcast is for you.
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Citing Down The Ladder
The Supreme Court utilizes lower court citations to support its positions even though they are non-binding and not even as persuasive as previous Supreme Court decisions. -
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Two Pieces To The Puzzle: Long Conference Petitions And Granted Cases For OT 2023
We are beginning to see a picture of what this coming term at the Court will look like. -
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Supreme Court Justice Power Index At The End Of The 2022 Term
A matrix for scoring the justices in terms of relative power. -
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Where We Are At The End Of The Supreme Court’s 2022 Term
Frequencies in the majority and justice alignment in all cases and in close cases shed more light on the condition of the current Court. -
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The Highest Cites In The Land
Which justices cited the most law journal articles in their opinions? -
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Term Update: We Haven’t Seen This In Over 25 Years
What's going on with the liberal justices and their dissents?