Uniform Mediation Act Still Trekking Through the States
The steadily rising costs of litigation, and the current backlog on civil dockets, have borne out what one of the most effective American trial lawyers of an earlier generation observed: that in...
Maintaining Confidentiality in Arbitration
We often hear that arbitration affords a level of confidentiality that courtroom proceedings do not. While that is true to an extent, it requires some qualification: It is the parties who must, by agreement or request to...
Timing in Trial Can Be Everything: Lessons from the Jefferson Davis Prosecution
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]I just finished reading Cynthia Nicoletti’s “Secession on Trial,” a meticulously researched account of how the United States attempted to convict Confederate ex-president Jefferson Davis for treason. Arrested in May 1865, he was indicted in 1866, but no trial ever occurred. After years of being subject to maneuvering and postponement...
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