An interesting new article follows up on Adam Winkler’s book; the article is online at this page of SSRN. Hat tip to Steve Hedley for...

New findings – from a highly credible source – provide yet another example of the power of AI to find previously unseen patterns that...

Interesting article on the US Chamber of Commerce in the May 2, 2019 WSJ. In short, the President and the Chamber have divergent views...

Hmmm – it will be interesting to see if state AG’s and/or private class action lawyers successfully sue Turbo Tax for its bait and switch...

The abstract pasted below was not an April fool’s joke. To the contrary, it illustrated the increasing efforts to combine in silico and...

It’s an amazing world out there. For legal analysis and data on “sextortion” cases,  see this March 19, 2019 post at Lawfare.

For yesterday’s editorial from the American Statistical Association, and more, go to “Moving to a World Beyond “p < 0.05.” For the paper...

What if Alexa went to law school? That’s the interesting headline used to tee of some exchanges about AI and changes to Lexis/Nexis...

Three new justices joined the Florida Supreme Court early in 2019 due to retirements of others. The new justices all were appointed by a...

It’s world cancer day, a reminder of the biggest global terrorist and driver of much litigation. The chart is from: Bray F, Ferlay J,...

Lawyers involved in mass tort litigation should be aware of this January 24, 2019 article (some would say puff piece) in Science...

Depending on perspectives, the California Supreme Court is famous (or infamous) for its rulings and is nationally influential....

Amazing changes in the litigation industry include the real arrival of television covering trials, including plenty of “mass tort” cases....

From AACR 2018 Cancer Report The chart and text are from the 2018 Cancer Progress Report from the American Association for Cancer...

Some recent reading reminded me that the Conversable Economist blog includes an October 23,  2013 post that provides a very useful...

A new litigation funder (Ralph Sutton CEO  Validity Finance), offered five predictions in a November 27, 2018 article at American...

More and more molecular data will arrive over the next few years; some of it will be very valuable for more deeply understanding when and...

Weekend reading led to an interesting, long form story on the private, automated and apparently  arbitrary and capricious world of  “law”...

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce (via its American Tort Reform Foundation) has issued the 2018-19 version of its annual “Judicial Hellholes”...

With trial court approval of a settlement, the parties are close to reaching the end of the long and winding road of the Avery case. ...