Title of a real course at Harvard: Madmen, Geniuses, and Harvard Students
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- Special master: Coughlin Stoia paid for "stolen" Coke documents
Do they often do business this way? The law firm of Coughlin Stoia, known as Lerach Coughlin before the departure of now-disgraced Bill Lerach, has been vying for lead counsel status in a shareholder class action against Coca-Cola. Now Roger Parloff at Fortune Legal Pad ( Feb. 28 ) reports that a s… more
Tue Mar 04 11:22am EST
- The health costs of defensive medicine
There is no shortage of examples of medical malpractice litigation where plaintiffs blame doctors for failing to perform a CT scan. E.g., Oct. 2006 and Feb. 2004 . This plainly raises costs far more than the direct costs of medical malpractice insurance that you see when the trial bar claims that… more
Tue Mar 04 08:40am EST
- March 4 roundup
Judge allows lawsuit to go forward as class action claiming consumers defrauded because gasoline expands in summer heat and so there s less in a gallon [ KC Star , TodaysTrucking.com ; earlier at PoL ] Online speech: when a lawprof says it silences someone not to let them sue for defamation, it … more
Tue Mar 04 12:05am EST
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Source: Overlawyered
- Track Hurricane Dean Here
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- Dean Gains Caribbean Strength
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- 73-Year-Old Woman Locked in Bank
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Source: NewsMax.com
- Orators expound »
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- Orators expound
A journalist , a landscape architect , and a Latin scholar are today’s Commencement orators. They fulfill a University tradition dating back to 1642. They also embark on three journeys that hint at the wide array of academic paths leading outward from Harvard. Lois Beckett / English oration … more
Wed Jun 03 01:00pm EDT
- ROTC commissions eight Harvard grads
Barron, Bilotti, Bras, Chiappini, Doohovskoy, Kristol, Pellegrini, West. That’s roll call for eight 2009 Harvard graduates who were commissioned late Wednesday morning (June 3). Five are new officers in the U.S. Army and three in the U.S. Marine Corps. The eight students filled out their … more
Wed Jun 03 02:30pm EDT
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Source: Harvard University: Current news