Formerly a top prosecutor, now a bestselling mystery novelist, Linda headed the sex crimes unit in the Morgenthau District Attorney’s office. She analyzes the DSK case from perp walk to dismissal, gives Jim her take on what really happened, as well as a sneak preview of her next book
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He explains that commercial litigants traditionally bear their own legal expense, and the cost may be catastrophic. Many drop good cases, or lose their businesses entirely, because they run out of money. Recently, however, third parties have advanced legal costs. Is such funding illegal or unethical? Does this new structure stir up meritless litigation or improve access to justice?
On January 30, 1972, during a civil rights march in Northern Ireland, the British Army killed 13 civilians. The eminent English jurist, Lord Saville, was tasked to conduct a public inquiry into what happened that ‘Bloody Sunday’. The report concluded that the soldiers were unjustified in firing and led to an unqualified apology by Prime Minister Cameron. In an exclusive Digital Age interview with Professor Richard Susskind, Lord Saville says that digital technologies were indispensable to the inquiry.
Susskind argues that the time charges oriented business model of the large law firm is flawed, and that if lawyers don’t reinvent themselves, and use technology to package their services, they will surely risk extinction.
He reveals who is the real “client” of the Corporation Counsel? How independent is he of the Mayor? How well has he done in protecting the public fisc? Corporation Counsel Cardozo answers these and other questions as he tells about the post- 9/11 challenges faced by his office and how he met many of them by going digital.
The top trial lawyer tells how digital evidence has revolutionized the conduct of trials.
Clinton didn’t inhale. Obama and Bush went further. But now it’s “You’ve Got Drugs” where Google searches for abusable substances without prescription produce hits in the six and seven figures.
Jack Goldsmith took on the White House. He reversed John Yoo’s opinion’s that blessed torture. But Bush and Cheney refused to back down and vetoed a bill proscribing waterboarding.
The lawyer, author and social reformer wants to overhaul the American legal system, and he wants the Net to help him do it.
Attorney General Gonzales was forced out over his role in the firing of eight United States Attorneys. Was it all because of the tell-tale emails? Get the inside from Special Watergate prosecutor Ben-Veniste.
The former Dean of Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School, now Director of Policy Planning at the State Department discusses whether Saddam Hussein can get a fair trial? Would an international trial be fairer?