Law and More
"Deconstructing what happens in law." A particular focus on consumer law and class-action litigation, and lead-paint litigation in particular. Some posts amount to professional-skills pep talks, and others recap recent episodes of Boston Legal.
Author: Jane Genova is a writer and "executive and marketing communications pro" based in New Haven, Conn. She also authors Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter.
Blawg Related Categories: Consumer Law • Tort Law • Product Liability Law • Blawg 100
Recent Posts from Law and More
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Professional-Services Firms, Social Media, Malpractice - Black-Swan Area of Litigation
Today's article in THE NEW YORK TIMES by Claire Cain Miller could well be cited as evidence in an individual or class-action lawsuit against a professional-services firm which did not use social media. Or did…
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"To her [Madoff victim], that money is real," Joe Nocera, NEW YORK TIMES
At the heart of the suffering of the Madoff victims is the assumption that they had earned money, often quite a bit of it, through their investments with the con artist. In an in-your-face commentary…
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Freedom From the Obama Show
Our Founding Fathers never anticipated the media era or probably how competitive politics would become. Otherwise they would have written in a guarantee of our right to freedom from the Presidential Family. This Fourth of…
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We are a wounded generation
Lawyers who started out as Literature majors will recall Gertrude Stein labeling her early 20th century generation as "lost." It had been unmoored by ideologies which eventually led to large wars. Today, we are a…
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Wally Lamb's "The Hour I First Believed" - Beach Reading for Bill Marler
"You drank it [raw milk from family dairy farm] unpasteurized?" That's what Maureen Quirk rhetorically asks her husband Caelum Quirk on page 117 of Wally Lamb's latest novel "The Hour I First Believed." "Yeah, and…
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You Betcha, Sarah Palin Could Win in 2012
With Greta's husband advising her, Sarah Palin seems to be making all the shrewd moves to move into the White House. On Politico.com, Jonathan Martin reports that this Alaska Governor will not seek re-election. That…
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Ruth Madoff Learns It's Cold Out There - Leaves Penthouse w/o coat
Coats have been symbolic in literature. In the Bible there is Joseph and his coat of many colors. Now a coat has become a key symbol of justice in life. Yesterday, when the feds took…
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Ruden McCLosky lays off 8 lawyers, along with pay cuts - Our parents/grandparents, ourselves
In law, as in many professional services, the downward trajectory continues, at least in terms of manpower reductions and cuts in pay. Ruden McClosky laid off 8 attorneys, along with an 18% pay cut for…
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Turn of the Screw - Vatican Investigating American Nuns's Beliefs, Lifestyle
There are two kinds of groups in the US. There are those who shrugged off their days with the nuns in Catholic grade school, high school and college. They might be practicing Roman Catholics today.…
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Lead Paint - It Giveth and Taketh Away
Lead paint is far from over. It's still a force that giveth and taketh away. Among the benefactors may well be PROVIDENCE JOURNAL reporter Peter Lord. This week he covered the lead paint remediation press…