Is this the death of class actions based on state law?

30 June, 2017

Class Action Woes As though it isn’t hard enough to wrangle together all the people harmed by a widespread practice into one multi-district litigation, the Supreme Court just made it harder to file and win class action lawsuits. The case that landed in front of the Court, Bristol-Myers Squibb v. S...

What role will A.I. hold in your practice?

23 June, 2017

Bots in Law When I think of artificial intelligence in the law firm, I immediately hearken back to that epic Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, when the android named Data is put on trial to decide if he’s a person or a piece of property. (Spoiler alert, if you can have a spoiler for a sh...

Mandatory Update on Mandatory Arbitration

9 June, 2017

7 New Turns on the Manditory Arbitration Rollercoaster 1 .  Mandatory Arbitration Upheld in Nursing Homes On May 15th, the US Supreme Court ruled that mandatory arbitration agreements were binding in nursing home contracts, which were signed through power of attorney by a person other than the...

Pollution and Plaintiff Law

2 June, 2017

What’s Our Role During the Demise of the EPA? We’ve written before about the potential of a future when auto accident cases may dry up, and the need to be thinking creatively now about your firm’s future focus. There are some glaring areas in need of good plaintiff-side lawyers: It comes down to thi...

Will Your Firm Survive the Next Ransomware Attack?

19 May, 2017

We hope you read our warnings about Kidnapped Computers and the new wave of highly sophisticated computer viruses. If you didn’t, here’s a run-down of the latest mayhem, and steps you can take to protect your practice and increase law firm security. If you weren’t worried before: ...

Class Action and Spam

12 May, 2017

Canadian spammers are losing sleep and “battening down the hatches” in the weeks before July 1st. That’s the date when the final provisions of an anti-spam law go into effect, including the big boogey-man that most frightens unscrupulous bulk-emailers: a consumer’s right to sue. Canada’s Anti-Spam L...