Plea Bargaining: A Necessary Evil?
What can be done to improve this important and problematic practice?
Attorney Still Hoping To Avoid Defending His Client In Court
Even if a lawyer wants to settle, it doesn't always happen.
How You Can Take Control Of Your Firm’s Financial Future
Roadblocks to data-driven business management are falling, and a better bottom line awaits.
Dewey Know Who’s Not Going To Trial? Defendant No. 4, Zachary Warren
Congratulations to both the promising young lawyer and the prosecution and putting this unfortunate episode to rest.
An AUSA Would Like His Time To Be Worth More Than Ted Olson’s; Or, DOJ’s New Appellate Threat So It Can Avoid Work
Spending any time actually "lawyering" should demand a high price for federal prosecutors.
Jeffrey Epstein’s Lawyers Want To Seal Documents To Stop The Frolic With The Media
Should information relating to plea negotiations be kept confidential?
Overpunishment, Rationality, And Rakoff
A look at one federal judge's proposal to reform the criminal justice system and the responses it has generated.
Thomson Reuters Editors + Law-Based AI: Why The Sum Is Greater Than The Parts
Practical Law's ‘Dynamic Tool Set’ application allows you to unleash the power of an army of attorney-experts while leveraging state-of-the-art gen AI.
White Collar Trials, Snitches, And Telling The Truth
Snitches are crafty witnesses.
Non-Sequiturs: 02.20.14
* Congrats to Weil Gotshal and Fenwick & West for getting in on Facebook’s $19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp, the biggest Internet deal in a decade. [The Recorder] * In South Carolina, you can get arrested for crimes that aren’t even things any more. Like “failure to return a VHS tape.” [Lowering the Bar] * Drunk lawyer at heart of alleged insider trading scheme. [Dealbreaker] * Did LBJ colossally screw up the Supreme Court? [Concurring Opinions] * Were you curious about who would be on the Mount Rushmore of Tax Law professors? No? Well, here they are anyway. [TaxProf Blog] * The so-called “trial penalty” is really a myth and empirical data confirms that defendants who reject plea deals and go to trial actually garner a “trial discount.” Yep, prosecutors aren’t overreaching at all. [PrawfsBlawg] * President Obama called for patent law reform in the State of the Union address. Now we have some insight into what he’s thinking about. [Patently-O] * Congratulations to Matthew Skinner, the next executive director of the LGBT Bar Association of Greater New York! [LeGal]
Unsealing The Trial Penalty?
Kevin Ring's lawyers want the world to see the presentation he was given by DOJ. The DOJ does not want you to have any clue what they told him.
Morning Docket: 01.16.12
* Rick Perry’s primary ballot election law suit in Virginia was unsuccessful, but maybe the Fourth Circuit will help him out on appeal. Or not. At least Huntsman’s out of the race, right? [Bloomberg] * That didn’t take too long. The National Federation of Independent Business has officially popped the cherry on filing lawsuits challenging […]
GCs And Outside Counsel: Here’s Your Chance To Rate The Other Side!
We are looking for insights from both private practice law firms and the clients they serve.
Judge Rejects Plea Deal as Something ‘That Only Goes to White Boys’
If you spend any time around criminal defense lawyers, progressive lawyers, or people in a black barber shop, you’ll hear the claim that African-American criminal defendants receive harsher sentences than their white counterparts. People have done studies about this, people have written reports about this, people have held conferences about this institutional expression of discrimination. […]