On Wednesday, May 8, I’ll be joining a pair of California Supreme Court experts for a panel discussion, “What to Expect from the Brown Court” at the Bar Association of San Francisco’s Conference Center, 301 Battery Street, 3rd Floor in San Francisco (the discussion will also be available through a webcast). Justice Joshua P. Groban, … Continue Reading
Ever wonder how the Restatements of the Law which we all read in law school (and have seen in even some modest law libraries throughout our careers) are written – and exactly who the American Law Institute – the credited authority behind the Restatements – is? As a prelude to our new biweekly series of … Continue Reading
Section One of the Sherman Act is written in simple, straightforward language: “Every contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations, is declared to be illegal.” Okay, maybe a little too simple, since, as the courts quickly realized, … Continue Reading
I’m delighted to welcome three new experienced and talented appellate specialists to our growing San Francisco office! Here’s the firm’s press release – Horvitz & Levy Expands San Francisco Office with Three Experienced Appellate Hires Bay Area Office for Nation’s Largest Appellate Boutique Offers Unmatched Expertise Horvitz & Levy LLP, the country’s largest boutique law … Continue Reading
Tuesday, March 12, I’ll be a panelist for a Strafford webinar on Data Analytics and Litigation. The other two panelists are Steve Embry, publisher of Tech Crossroads (and a former colleague of mine many years ago) and Evan Moses, a partner at Ogletree Deakins, Nash, Smoak and Stewart. The time is 10:00 – 11:30 Pacific. … Continue Reading
Exciting& news from a press release this morning: Horvitz & Levy LLP, the country’s largest boutique law firm dedicated to civil appeals and trial strategy consulting, is opening a San Francisco office at 505 Sansome Street in the city’s iconic Transamerica Pyramid Center, strengthening the firm’s California roots. The new office will be led by … Continue Reading
On November 15 at the Union Club in Chicago, I’ll have the pleasure of joining the members of the Appellate Lawyers Association and the South Asian Bar Association of Chicago for a discussion of the data analytics revolution as it applies to appellate law – “Patterns and Practice: How Analyzing the Illinois Supreme Court Can … Continue Reading
Last week, I was looking at our archives, pulling up old research, and I stumbled onto this two-year old post – my 500th on Appellate Strategist. Now that our other two blogs, Illinois Supreme Court Review and California Supreme Court Review, have been publishing for a while, I decided to check the dashboards there too. … Continue Reading
On February 16, 2017, the Florida Supreme Court declined to adopt the Daubert standard for the admissibility of expert evidence into the Florida Evidence Code to the extent it is procedural in nature. See In re Amends. to the Fla. Evid. Code, No. SC16-181, 2017 WL 633770 (Fla. Feb. 16, 2017). To read the full … Continue Reading
On Tuesday, June 7th at 11:00 AM Pacific/2:00 PM Eastern, Sedgwick’s Appellate Task Force will present its webinar “Adding an Appellate Specialist to the Trial Team: The Sooner the Better.” Highlights of the hour-long CLE presentation include: The Appellate Specialist’s Role Before Trial — preparing the motions and briefs which the appeal will often turn … Continue Reading
Early last year, we founded the Illinois Supreme Court Review to bring rigorous, law-review style empirical research founded on data analytic techniques to the study of appellate decision making. Today, we expand our focus with the California Supreme Court Review, a new blog devoted to sharing insights culled from tens of thousands of pages of … Continue Reading
On Wednesday, April 29th at 11:00 AM Pacific/2:00 PM Eastern, Sedgwick’s Appellate Task Force will present its webinar “The California Supreme Court: What to Expect in 2015.” Highlights of the hour-long CLE presentation include: Data Analytics and the Court: We’ll preview our group’s new data analytics database on the Court’s work since 2000. We’ll discuss … Continue Reading
Academics in various disciplines have been developing sophisticated tools for analyzing the dynamics of group decision making for many years. The leading figures in this research have been mostly law and politics professors, along with a number of economists, and their methods have included data analytics, game theory, organization theory and behavioral economics, to name … Continue Reading
Be sure to check back with Appellate Strategist beginning on Monday, when I’ll be live-blogging the Annual Meeting of the American Law Institute from Washington D.C. In addition to posts here, I’ll be one of a group of ALI members blogging the meeting on the ALI’s blog. The ALI was founded in 1923. Membership is by election … Continue Reading
The Appellate Strategist was the first blog to offer a comprehensive, regularly-updated database of civil issues — broken down by category and subject matter — that the California Supreme Court has agreed to hear and decide. We are proud to announce two new features. Since this "preview of coming attractions" has been one of our most popular … Continue Reading