Bio

Formidable 7th Circuit Judge Richard Posner recently published in the winter edition of the legal journal "Gre[...]

May 3, 2016

Appellate briefs. The bane of some lawyers, the boon of others, including me.

April 12, 2016

Confidential information. We know it when we see it, but we don’t always know what to do with it, especially[...]

June 22, 2015

An amicus curiae, or “friend of the court,” lives in a kind of appellate limbo.

November 13, 2014

In my most recent column’s discussion of ghostwriting, my personal recommendation was in favor of counsel’[...]

November 4, 2014

When an opposing party is pro se, I gird myself for his briefs. They’re typically long, disorganized, wander[...]

October 16, 2014