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Book review: John Grisham's “The Litigators” a swerving, stirring retort

Did that affect Grisham’s sales? It did not. But instead of (or in addition to) laughing all the way to the bank, he took the road less traveled by: He got better. He worked some new kinks into the old formulas. He read (I’m guessing) Elmore Leonard and Michael Connelly and Scott Turow with profit. Most intriguingly, he began tossing back drinks with characters who would never in their lives be played by Tom Cruise.

So if you’re a Grisham apostate, now might be the time to get reacquainted. And this snappy, well-turned novel might be a good place to start.

Our hero is David Zinc, a Harvard Law grad and, at 31, a burnt-out case, one of the many associates and junior partners toiling for long hours and large (unspent) wages in a downtown Chicago law firm. All is going as planned, which is to say horribly, until one morning David suffers an anxiety attack on the 93rd floor and bolts. After a long day’s drinking, he ends up in the gutter outside an establishment called Finley & Figg.

Source: Washington Post

Judicial Specialization and the Functional Case for Non-Article III ...

by Steve Vladeck

, The debate over the propriety of non-Article III federal adjudication tends to reduce to the classical divide between separation-of-powers formalists and functionalists. Thus, Chief Justice Roberts’s opinion for the 5-4 majority, in the course of holding that non-Article III bankruptcy courts could not constitutionally exercise jurisdiction over certain kinds of state-law counterclaims, repeatedly trumpeted the need zealously to protect Article III prerogatives from even the smallest encroachment. In contrast, Justice Breyer’s dissent harped on the real-world efficiency that such adjudication promoted, criticizing the majority for failing to appreciate how much its decision would likely slow down (and further complicate) bankruptcy litigation by requiring the intervention of district courts before final judgment in a far greater number of cases. As Breyer explained, “a constitutionally required game of jurisdictional ping-pong between courts would lead to inefficiency, increased cost, delay, and needless additional suffering among those faced with bankruptcy....

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Law Journal Jurisprudence Volume News

For Bachmann's law school, god and justice were intertwined

eTaiwan News - Dec 31, 1969

“We hope to guide our students to a deeper understanding of their spiritual gifts and of their place in God's kingdom,” the school's dean, Charles Kothe, wrote in the first edition of its law review, The Journal of Christian Jurisprudence.

Book review: John Grisham's “The Litigators” a swerving, stirring retort

Washington Post - Dec 31, 1969

To these tragicomic proceedings, Grisham brings his usual nuanced understanding of tort law and civil jurisprudence, but he seems just as interested in the non-experts. Those hard-luck cases, for instance, who sign on to the Krayoxx suit: widows and

Justices' SALN and other FAQs

Inquirer.net - Dec 31, 1969

Every legal problem is unique and requires an ascertainment of the specific facts and a research on applicable laws and jurisprudence. For example, a question asked by a reader is whether she, as an adopted child, will inherit from a deceased son of

UK supreme court sits on cusp of tradition and modernity

The Guardian - Dec 31, 1969

The oldest legal volume dates back to the 1660s. A glass balustrade is engraved with mottos chosen by the first 12 justices, including quotations by Disraeli – "Justice is truth in action", Martin Luther King – "Injustice anywhere is injustice