the Zealous

20 Apr 17

In a study published in the Journal of Corporation Law, law school Professors Badawi and Webber examined, over a five-year period, takeover target share price changes in reaction to the perceived quality of the law firm(s) filing litigation challenging, on behalf of institutional shareholders, the fairness of the announced proposed merger or acquisition. The professors grouped the plaintiff firms into "high quality" and "low quality", based on a number of critieria, including value of settlements recovered and whether any of the firms were openly criticized by the Delaware Chancery judges as being, well, worthless leeches, basically.
 
22 Feb 17

Contract drafting guru Ken Adams has a non-disclosure agreement template that is (in Ken's words) "way better than anything else out there. And I wager it’s way better than anything a company could create on their own or have a law firm create."
 
Ken explains the steps needed to purchase this – a process Ken describes as "custom-commodity drafting":

03 Feb 17
If you haven't checked out the TV series Goliath (Amazon Prime), you're missing out. Billy Bob Thornton plays Billy McBride, a badass but disgraced trial lawyer excommunicated from the massive firm that he founded. The show is about how Billy plots his attempt at redemption and revenge.

There's a scene in which Billy is prepping a deponent, his own witness, and conveys his five rules for depositions (full transcript):

But look, a deposition's not rocket science. There's a way to deal with them. You know? There's really five simple rules.

When they ask you a question, if you don't understand it, just ask them to repeat it. All right.