Sometimes, lawyers talk funny. Exactly, what is it about attorneys that engenders such prolixity? Ipse dixit is but one of seemly limitless examples. Years ago, I ran across this archaic term in a ...

Until 1997, when the Supreme Court decided General Electric v. Joiner, 522 U.S. 136, (1997), I had never heard of the term ipse dixit. Now, almost every month I read a decision in which that phrase ...

Plaintiffs often disclose medical experts to opine not only as to the diagnosis or prognosis of an injury or medical condition, but also as to whether the defendant’s actions caused plaintiff’s ...

A reader of the newly declassified “torture memo” finds herself tempted to live-blog it; that is, to offer online, real-time notes that otherwise would be scrawled in the margins replete with all ...