I recently had a conversation with a friend who is corporate counsel for a foreign corporation which has recently added some domestic holdings. The conversation centered around his attempts…
It looks like there has been a turning point in the battle to allow consumers to know whether the foods they buy contain GMO. Food retailer Whole Foods announced on Friday that it would require…
In a follow-up to an earlier blog about food safety wherein I mentioned that new genetically modified (GMO) foods, like salmon, contain the DNA of other species, like eels and that these…
Are there to any two American institutions more irksome to the average American than the U.S. Postal Service and City Hall? The say “you can’t fight city hall” and as for haling…
In many ancient cultures, comets were viewed has harbingers of change – sometimes doom, death and destruction. The year 2013 is being heralded as the year of the comet. Apropos of…
Recently hitting the “odd news” circuit is the case of Plaintiff John Huttick and how a mistrial was declared in Philadelphia’s Common Pleas Court. Huttick had sued a man,…
With the advent of the Internet a slew of “virtual” legal problems have arisen that could not have been dreamed about before the technology existed. Most of the issues revolve…
No doubt everyone has experienced the moment in a deposition where a question presents itself — a question which is relevant, meaningful, and on the borderline of being out-of-bounds. In…
New York is tinkering with the idea of allowing the third years of law school to be optional. Proponents argue that the 3L year is superfluous and serves only to pad the pockets of law…
Not many American lawyers are aware that at Common Law there existed a right for an individual to bring a private criminal prosecution against another person. The private prosecution…
At the core, every successful trial attorney must be a storyteller. Sadly, law schools do little to nurture and develop this essential skill but rather, ironically, do quite a good bit to…