By Andrew Cohen Permission to use Andrew Cohen’s article granted graciously by the Brennan Center for Justice. The author Andrew Cohen is a Montrealer Let’s now try to be as clear about Antonin Scalia in death as he tried to be in life. He surely was a hero to a hundred million conservatives who saw […]

Trial attorney Michael Waddington’s new book, The Art of Trial Warfare, Winning at Trial Using Sun Tzu’s The Art of War, teaches lawyers how to fight and win difficult cases, against the odds. The Art of Trial Warfare Using Sun Tzu’s revered The Art of War as a point of inspiration and reference, lawyer and […]

It took approximately 30 minutes after Justice Antonin Scalia’s death was confirmed for everyone to start rolling out their list of likely replacements. (Let’s set aside, for now, the fact that prior to any actual person being nominated, there are already GOP vows to block, well, anyone.) The pool of people in the “credible rumor” list […]

US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was the guest of honor to one of the most prestigious annual dinner of the Italian Canadian Association of urists of Quebec held in Montreal a few years ago.The Sicilian Italian jurist was no stranger to controversy in his writings both as a conservative justice and jurist. He died […]

By Timothy Bernstein, Analyst Since last summer, the student loan sector has been in a state of turmoil not seen since the financial crisis. While Moody’s and Fitch revisit their respective rating methodologies for federally-insured student loan asset-backed securities (FFELP ABS), yield spreads have skyrocketed. Since July of 2015, spreads have more than doubled and […]

Settlement Includes $550 Million For New York, Including Millions To Help New Yorkers Avoid Foreclosure And Rebuild Their Communities; Significant Resources Dedicated To Transforming Code Enforcement Systems And Combating Proliferation Of Zombie Homes Settlement Addresses Misconduct That Contributed To The 2008 Financial Crisis Schneiderman: Today’s Settlement Is Another Victory In Our Effort To Help New […]

The 110th ASIL Annual Meeting will feature keynote addresses by Chilean President Michelle Bachelet (Grotius Lecture) and U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer (Assembly Keynote), as well as Lévy Kaufmann-Kohler Partner and University of Geneva Professor Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler (Brower Lecture on International Dispute Resolution). The ASIL Annual Meeting is one of the largest gatherings […]

Listing all of your lawyers on the letterhead makes the wrong impression (This post originally appeared as our response to a question on the Legal Marketing Association list serv). The trend for many years has been to eliminate listing all lawyers on firm letterhead. For at least 25 years of which we are aware the […]

AFP CHAIRMAN EMMANUEL HOOG ON FRIDAY DEMANDED IN A LETTER ADDRESSED TO PRESIDENT PIERRE NKURUNZIZA THE RELEASE OF JOURNALISTS JEAN-PHILIPPE RÉMY AND PHIL MOORE WHO WERE ARRESTED THURSDAY IN BURUNDI. Phil Moore is a British freelance photographer who works regularly for AFP and Frenchman Jean-Philippe Rémy is the Le Monde correspondent for Africa. Phil Moore […]

On the eve of the UN Human Rights Council’s 2016 session, courageous champions of human rights from around the world will unite to place urgent situations on the international agenda. Please join us. February 23, 2016 Centre International de Conference Genève 17 rue de Vare1202 Geneva