Estate Planning

France's "Kafka Index"
France has designed a red tape buster called the "Kafka Index." It will "measure the complexity of a project or law against its usefulness to cut red tape." "The index--referring to Franz Kafka's The Trial, which describes one man's fight...

The Estate of Franz Kafka
The disposition of the literary estate of Franz Kafka is metamorphosing into a dispute that may take many years to resolve. Here are the details summarized from Ethan Bronner, Under ?Kafkaesque? Pressure, Heir to Kafka Papers May Yield Them, NY...

Stop the Presses
The meaning of life is that it stops.  --- Franz KafkaIf you are familiar with Kafka and his short literary works, you will know that he was a tortured literary genius who was unsure of his own talent to the point of torment...

The Latest Kafka Papers Controversy
The New York Times has an interesting story on the fate of some of Franz Kafka?s papers. The broad outline of the story is well-known: Kafka directed his friend, editor, and executor, Max Brod to destroy Kafka?s unpublished works, which...

Kafka's POV
Arnold Heidsieck, University of Southern California, has published "Kafka's Narrative Innovation and Ethical Intuitions." Here is the abstract. In his fictions Kafka develops an innovative narrative POV (uni-polar 'self-narration') and a penetrating (near-psychoanalytic) scrutiny of motives...

Franz Kafka's Last Wishes and the Kafka Myths
Professor Lior Strahilevitz (U. Chicago Law School) has an interesting post about Franz Kafka's papers. The famous story about Kafka's papers is that Kafka asked his friend, Max Brod, to burn them after his death...

Nanotechnology Law
Intellectual property laws

Family of Car Accident Awarded $35 Million
Family of Car Accident Awarded $35 Million

$15 Million Settlement Awarded to Family of Plane Crash Victim
$15 Million Settlement Awarded to Family of Plane Crash Victim

Poling Family Receives $1.5 Million in First Autism Vaccine Settlement
Poling Family Receives $1.5 Million in Autism Vaccine Settlement

Family Law
involving divorce, child custody, spousal support, common law, adoption and same sex marriage.

Property ID Class Action
Settled for $39 Million

Chicago Golf Course
101 Year Old Owner Must Get $25 Million for Property