Once in a while, we’ll come across an article that just simply defies us. It’s typically not that such a piece is too legally complicated to discuss, rather that it stands on its own in some way, defying commentary, a paean to logic-defyi...

You had to suspect this would happen. You’d have to expect that the Supreme Court, having opened the Second Amendment box last term with its Heller opinion, would have to weigh in on the topic again soon to clarify what it might view as any mis...

We can barely wait for next week. Yes, there’s a little matter called the MLB playoffs, in which our beloved Angels will have their hands full with those dreaded Boys from Beantown. But of even greater cause for excitement: the opening of the...

Just a smidge of Scotus news to get you caught up on today, LBers, starting with some of an unpleasant nature: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was admitted to Washington Hospital Center on Thursday when she fell ill at the court after being treated for a...

An observation: Product-liability claims against pharmaceutical companies are sort of like the U.S. mail. Come rain, snow, sleet, hail, boom-times or recessions, the claims just keep on coming. It’s bad news for Big Pharma, but good news for la...

Welcome to the touchy-feely defense bar. The past couple of days have shown us a decidedly softer side to the perhaps stereotypical tough-talking New York defense attorney. One of these displays happened Friday in Brooklyn where two former Bear...

This just in: Cleary Gottlieb has matched the Cravath bonuses we reported early this week. The memo reads as follows (click here to read the PDF): – MEMORANDUM FOR ALL ASSOCIATES ON THE U.S. SALARY SCALE Re: 2009 Bonuses On behalf of the partners...

Can we call this a trend: law professors tucking their grievances not into law review articles, but federal court complaints? (Gosh do we hope so. Law school deans, to any of you who may be reading, we think you should encourage it. Get each of your...

We come to you today from Gotham City with this report of woe for the jailed brother of “The Dark Knight” director Christopher Nolan. Matthew Nolan, incarcerated in Chicago, apparently attempted a dastardly deed that none has achieved before him: an...

So, in light of Thursday’s shocking allegations that Ropes & Gray associate Arthur Cutillo was, for a good period of time back in the halcyon M&A days of 2007, livin’ large at Ground Zero of a big insider-trading scheme, we have to ask: What’s going...