Civil Justice

Civil Justice

David Hechler | Corporate Counsel Business Journal

The Civil Justice Playbook sometimes cribs its best material from the Criminal Justice Playbook. What follows is a prime example. In early February, the fraud section of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Criminal Division posted a seven-page document that nobody seemed to notice...

Civil Justice

Jennifer A. Brennan, Hon. Mitchell D. Dembin, Ruth Hauswirth | iDiscovery Solutions

Introduction: The amended Federal Rules of Civil Procedure went into effect a little over a year ago now, and experience and case law are growing. We checked in with three experts who bring differing on-the-ground vantages to discovery practice and procedure: Hon. Mitchell D. Dembin, a U.S....

Civil Justice

Corporate Counsel Business Journal

There’s a new sheriff in lawsuit land. Displacing California, ranked as the top Judicial Hellhole three of the last four years, is the city of St. Louis, Missouri, which topped the annual Judicial Hellholes report released last month by the American Tort Reform Foundation (ATRF). The #1...