Super Lawyers® has named Tara Aaron to its list of Mid-South Rising Stars for 2012. Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The...
The Executive Summary Version I’m going to take another crack at my last post—and at my next post*—so reading this is actually a form of time travel. And travel into a parallel universe in which I’ve already written the next post (which will never be written in...
Part I: Why Williams Isn’t the Answer Sorry, but I can’t let go of the Thomas-Rasset affair quite yet. It is not my habit to criticize court opinions. They are what they are, and the important thing for us lawyers is to understand them. But in this case, I’d...
Some of you might remember that, last year, Rick was named a “Best Lawyer” by the Best Lawyers in America folks, in the field of “Litigation—Intellectual Property.” It’s a nice honor, and we appreciate it! Well, this year, Rick was again...
But Should Juries Have This Much Discretion? Last time we celebrated the finality* of the music industry’s case against Jammie Thomas-Rasset. The parties, for different reasons, decided to stop insisting on remittitur, let the judge rule on the constitutionality of...
How Many Licks? One, Two-hoo, *Crunch*, Three Er, how many trials does it take to get to the center of a file-sharing case, where the plaintiffs have a point to prove and the defendant has nothing left to lose? Three, apparently (because no one can get there without...
