Knowledge management (“KM”) teams in large law firms have new internal customers: the managers of the firms, the finders who are generating new business, the marketing chairs who are positioning the firms and the finance directors who are struggling to price the professional services of the...

Judges and legal aid lawyers have been the slowest segments of the legal profession to adopt technology innovations. Interestingly, another commonality between them is that neither segment needs to impress current clients or do marketing to keep fully employed. For legal aid lawyers, the number...

The civil justice system is failing the poor, and law schools are failing their students. Despite these shortcomings, there are only a handful of law school courses and clinical opportunities where law students can learn the skills needed to thrive in today's technology-driven law practice — a...

Partners practicing in LLP firms should not assume that the LLP structure provides an impervious shield. Rather LLP partners, as well as those dealing with and suing LLPs, should understand the statutory protection and applicable case law. As discussed above, the liability shield provided by the...

This paper selects amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure that bear promise for cutting the costs of civil litigation. It suggests how to teach students (and lawyers) to take advantage of the amendments to protect one's client from overly costly or abusive discovery. It also includes...

Polish Abstract: Związek efektywności wymiaru sprawiedliwości ze standardami aktywów niematerialnych tego sektora – choć naturalny w kontekście roli odgrywanej przez sądy w ustroju państw demokratycznych, a także rosnącej wagi czynników niematerialnych w systemach prawnych –...

The global legal system consists of a multitude of legal regimes of various origin, thus constituting a regulatory framework which is significantly different from the one of a nation state. In the absence of a world state, international and supranational law regimes, various domestic legal...

The financial crisis has placed executive pay at center stage in the corporate governance reform debate in the United States and around the world. We consider whether a judge-made solution to the problem will support the regulatory reform effort to reduce or eliminate excessive compensation. In...

As a matter of historical practice and an exemption from the federal Safe Drinking Water Act, the regulatory framework for shale gas extraction currently resides within state permitting and enforcement structures. The 11th Circuit decision in Legal Environmental Assistance Foundation v. U.S. EPA...