Becoming a Neurolawyer

8 September, 2017

Traumatic Brain Injury and the fight against ‘Malingering’ I’m looking at a diagram of the human brain. In this picture it looks like a very wrinkly baseball mitt, cuddled up in the hard shell of skull. It is swaddled in three membranes all named different kinds of ‘mater’ (meaning ‘mother’ – pia...

3 Trends in Discrimination Class Actions

25 August, 2017

What does the future hold for civil rights and labor lawyers?  The conflict we saw in Charlottesville bubbles up in a million different forms and discussions about free speech, discrimination, and the future of our country. One place where these questions are being addressed in les...

Data Wars

11 August, 2017

Seven Summer Updates in Privacy Law With all the summer’s buzz about leaks, you’d be forgiven for thinking data breaches are mostly a Trump story. But off the Hill, there’s plenty of turmoil over the issue of personal privacy. As we fight for personal privacy in the age of big data and bigger hac...

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 show tw...

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 ...