Jeffrey Brecher discusses the implications of using Rule 68 offers of judgment, emphasizing the potential reputational impacts that defendants may endure when opting for this rule, in “1 Way To Wrap Up... Read more »
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Wednesday in two cases involving a requirement for herring fisheries to pay for the observers the government used to monitor overfishing. At the heart of... Read more »
Hong Kong Department of Justice (DOJ) removed the database that contained national security law-related convictions 5 days after its publication, local media Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP) reported on Tuesday. The report... Read more »
The U.S. military has decided to put independent lawyers in charge of how it investigates and prosecutes cases of sexual assault and other major crimes, sidelining commanders after years of pressure from... Read more »
The Russian authorities opened 70 cases in 2023, either for state treason or for confidential cooperation with a foreign state or organization, according to a report from the human rights organization Perviy... Read more »
Illinois officials are questioning whether the state’s roughly 1,000 judges should be required to undergo the same training to better respond to rape survivors that illinois police officers have participated in 2018,... Read more »
Over the past two years, prosecutors in the St. Louis circuit attorney’s office have been unable to get retired homicide detective Thomas W. Mayer Sr. into a courtroom, causing multiple cases to... Read more »
In July, NetDocuments announced the limited launch of PatternBuilder MAX, a generative AI-driven version of its PatternBuilder document assembly product that it said would enable firms to create custom generative AI automations... Read more »
A St. Louis police officer has refused to testify in at least nine murder cases in which he served as lead detective, contributing to decisions to offer defendants in at least four... Read more »
Eric Magnus Comments on the Supreme Court’s Decision to Review the Discretion of Arbitration Cases