Today’s post is another guest post from friend of the Blog Kevin Hara, of Reed Smith, who channels our resident movie critic in this wide-ranging discussion of pleading and procedural weirdness. As always with our guest posts, the author deserves 100% of the credit, and any blame, for what follows.
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This post is from the non-Reed Smith side of the blog.
It may be post Mardi Gras season, but we don’t think there is ever a bad time to embrace the motto – “Laissez les bons temps rouler.” Quite literally – “Let the good times roll.” However, don’t try this with your high school French
Last week we attended our law firm’s partner retreat. In between circuits on the lazy river, there was talk of synergies, branding, cross-selling, diversity, technology, and, mostly, collaboration. You know – the usual stuff. That last point, collaboration, is really the predicate for all of the others. Collaboration today has a positive connotation of people
Last September, we criticized a 2-1 decision out of the Ninth Circuit, In re Google Referrer Header Privacy Litigation, 869 F.3d 737 (9th Cir. 2017), calling it a “poster child” for cy pres abuse in class actions. Read the entire post for all the gory details, but briefly, the class action settlement in Google
The Eleventh Circuit has lately become a bit like Forest Gump’s box of chocolates—you never know what you’re going to get. The news today is positive. The Eleventh Circuit recently issued a gem of an opinion on the learned intermediary doctrine under the law of Alabama, which also happens to be the home of the