Every defense attorney has their own favorite metaphor for what we do. Some talk of it like a street fight, envisioning a slugfest with the cops or the court or DA (or all three). Others speak as if it’s a poker game (with the other side usually holding all the...
On our main website, we wrote a brief primer on international law, mostly for our own enjoyment. (The same reason why we write this blog, actually.) To our constant amazement, it gets cited heavily around the internet, and has been on the syllabus of at least a couple law school...
The feds are really ramping up their insider-trading enforcement. But instead of going after real insiders, they’re going after consultants and investors who use them. This is a big risk for the feds, and they could lose big. It started a year ago, when the feds indicted a bunch...
When we were kids, the police were the good guys. They were who you could turn to if you got lost. They were the ones who protected us from the bad guys. They were on our side. When we were kids, of course, we learned a simplified version of reality....
For a while there, it seemed like not a day went by without us reading of some firm or other laying off a mess of lawyers. Things have changed. Now, it seems as if not a day goes by without us reading of some law student getting upset at the...
Those of us who work in the criminal justice system — whether lawyers, judges, social workers or whatever — are fairly cognizant of the fact that the vast majority of people who get arrested aren’t really a problem for society. Depending on the stats you’re looking at, for something...
Let’s wind up this content-free week with a poll. Criminal defense attorneys are often asked how they can stand to defend people they know to be guilty. But to see just how off-target that question is, go and ask them what they believe to be the most difficult case to...
Well we still haven’t had half a moment to compose something worth reading. So in lieu of an actual post, here’s some more links to stuff. First, we just went through another election. We live in Manhattan, which votes overwhelmingly Democrat, so the results were a foregone conclusion no matter...
No time to post something original today, but wanted to link to some other stuff you might not have seen yet: First, there was an article in this morning’s WSJ by Law Blog author Ashby Jones, with Joann Lublin, called “Critics Blow Whistle on Law.” For those who liked our...
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