Get down on your knees and pray! I know it, I see it. The Huns will not come. Sainte Genevieve (422-512) saved Parisians from the Huns, the legend goes, in 451. People had started to flee Paris in anticipation of the invasion led by Attila--but stopped when she told them she had a vision that the Huns would not enter Paris. She became the city's patron saint. In 1928, a grateful Paris erected a sta...

WAC? considers Utah a republic unto itself. We even considered adding Utah sites to our Directory of Non-U.S. Blogs, on your lower left. Let us be vague here. You'd need to spend time in Utah to begin to understand. Hull McGuire has worked much in the Salt Lake area, both courts and transactions, for out-of-state clients. And we always have hired local counsel in Utah, if only as a cultural resourc...

Still a young country, America. And July 4th means reflection as well as celebration. When does America square realities with its fine but unmet principles? See at Scott Greenfield's Simple Justice "Our 232nd Year and It Doesn't Look Promising"....

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness. Aristotle (384–322 BC), fragment...

An "easy-to-win" business suit against your client defended by the most efficient defense counsel on earth can have defense fees well over $100,000, even with minimal or no discovery. It's a good time for business clients to push for ADR (including mediation) over litigation. Not because ADR is cheaper, faster and better--sometimes it's clearly not--but because the cases you defend in a struggling...