Sands Anderson Risk Management Group Leader Terrence Graves wrote the following article for the DRI: Litigation Funding Equals Big Money. The article was inspired by this recent Wall Street Journal article “Funds Spring Up to Invest in High-Stakes Litigation.” (This article is available to subscribers, or those who sign up for a two week free trial. You [...]

Amen to Ted Tjaden for writing this article about why “and/or” should never be used in legal writing.  Although I know that “and/or” has its place – it certainly is economical – that place is not in well-crafted discovery requests. Too often I see it when the drafter of the document simply failed to really think about [...]

On June 10, 2010, the Supreme Court of Virginia issued two rulings that could have important impacts on Risk Management clients.

What is offered here are highlights of some of Judge Scheindlin’s comments in this decision. This is neither offered as a complete analysis of the opinion, nor is it postured to be a legal analysis of the opinion with respect to the rules of discovery or other case law.