Personal Injury Law

Intellectual Property Trials Disappear
During final preparation for my Illinois State Bar Association program on "ADR in IP" I checked recent federal court statistics on trials for IP cases.  I was amazed.We've all heard about the declining number of federal court trials overall...

Limit on review of war crimes issues
The D.C. Circuit Court, giving the Pentagon a significant victory as it prepares war crimes trials, ruled on Friday that the Court has no authority to hear challenges to those trials until after there is a final conviction or a not-guilty verdict that is then upheld by a top Pentagon official and, for a conviction, [...

This weeks stats
From public defender blogger Ipse Dixit: 4: number of trials on calendar today2: number of trials set to call the prosecution’s bluff2: number of trial dismissals because the prosecution was unable to proceed1: number of clients with excellent cases for trial who could not afford to take time off of work to hold trial and entered [...

New E-book Collection
The Law Library has added a large number of new e-books to our collection with the purchase of the Hein World Trials Library.HeinOnline?s World Trials Collection contains not only trial transcripts and other critical court documents, but also trial-related resources such as monographs which analyze and debate the decisions of famous trials...

This week's stats
4: number of trials on calendar today2: number of trials set to call the prosecution's bluff2: number of trial dismissals because the prosecution was unable to proceed1: number of clients with excellent cases for trial who could not afford to take time off of work to hold trial and entered a plea bargain1: number of trials trailed until Monday1: number of clients who shared extremely important information with me 7 months after it would have been helpful for me to have received such information1: number of my clients on informal probation who are back in custody now facing life in prison on strike number 360: age of third strike client1: number of percipient witnesses who contacted me AFTER plea bargain, whose names and information were not included in discovery4: number of times I had to leave the courtroom instead of getting into a screamin g match with a prosecutor1: number of clients who broke down crying upon learning that a family member was present in court and would have to learn what she did to try and pay her rent1: number of clients with mental retardation facing state prison2: clients in protective custody with a "green light"1: number of clients awaiting deportation who have given birth to a child while in custody1: number of complaining witnesses trying to shake my client down for money35: new cases assigned for the month4: number of clients who expressed heartfelt thanks for fighting for them

KS Supremes: All juveniles have a right to a jury trial
Snip: The court ruled 6-1 that the state's juvenile trials have changed over the years to more closely resemble adult criminal trials. Changes in the law have "eroded the benevolent, child-cognizant, and rehabilitative" nature of juvenile trials, according to the...

Railroad Workers
concerning the growing number of work-related injuries in the railroad industry.