The money shot in many legal thrillers includes the lawyer, like a Whack-a-Mole, popping up, finger poised like a weathervane and booming, “I object!” In plain English, an objection may be defined as ...

Ho v. Jefferson Financial Credit Union, 2024 WL 4119422 (E.D. La. Sept. 9, 2024), provides a succinct summary of the scope of discovery under the December 2015 amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil ...

It’s a line that fans of shows like “Law & Order” and “Boston Legal” have heard hundreds of times. But while TV lawyers make objections look easy, it’s not so simple when there’s no script or retakes.

Objection Sustained? Or Overruled? | A Phoenix Wright cosplayer joins the Occupy demonstration in Santa Rosa, Calif. yesterday. (Image submitted by Joel B.) The Indie Stone, the U.K.-based team behind ...

Walter Olson’s previous books show the malign effects of the legal profession on everyday Americans. Schools for Misrule explains how most of the damaging ideas that lawyers, politicians, and judges ...

Schools for Misrule Legal Academia and an Overlawyered America by Walter Olson Encounter, 296 pp., $25.95 Following Judge Roger Vinson’s decision that Obamacare exceeded the powers granted to Congress ...