Laid-off workers over 40, it turns out, aren’t just sitting back, accepting their laid-off fates and waiting for those Social Security checks to come in. No sir, they’re increasingly taking matters into their own hands . . . and suing, claiming age-discrimination. Click here for the WSJ ...

To “preserve a system that can protect the people who didnÂ’t do bad things, you have to represent people who did do bad things. ThatÂ’s the role we play.” – Ira Lee Sorkin, lawyer for Bernie Madoff The above is the final quote in an NYT story out Wednesday about Ira Lee (”IkeR...

The hemorrhaging just won’t stop. When Black Thursday hit back in February, a very naive, hopeful part of us thought we’d seen the nadir (good Scrabble word, nadir). After all, it hardly seemed it could get worse: In the days leading up to and including Black Thursday (Feb. 12, 2009), we...

What to do about John C. Yoo? That’s the question posited today in a NYT front-pager. Yoo, a law professor at Berkeley, was, as many LB Readers know, a high-ranking DOJ lawyer during the Bush administration. He authored several legal memorandums which wound up framing the Bush administration&#...

The arguments on California’s Proposition 8 wrapped up a couple hours ago out in San Francisco. The California Supreme Court did not vote or issue a ruling, but according to early press accounts, it sounds like the justices are inclined to uphold the law, which bans same-sex marriage. Click he...

Let’s talk law-firm layoffs for a minute. Anyone who’s clicked onto this blog in the past six months knows that big law firms have taken a veritable hatchet to their rank-and-file, with support staff and associates taking the hardest hits. (Click here for American Lawyer’s list of ...

Eureka! We’d been looking for much of the day for a good piece to gear you up, LB Readers, for tomorrow’s Prop 8 arguments, taking place out in San Francisco at the California Supreme Court (pictured). This piece, from the San Francisco Chronicle, is really as good as any we’ve see...

Earlier today, we previewed the arguments in the Massey Energy case. To recap, yet again: The underlying case involved a $50 million jury verdict against Massey Energy, which was later overturned by the West Virginia Supreme Court, in a 3-2 vote. At issue: whether the due process clause required one...

Loyal LB readers should already have their Tivos set to the California Channel this Thursday for the California Supreme Court arguments over Proposition 8, the legislation that passed in November banning same-sex marriage. But for those on the fence, here’s another reason to tune in: to check ...

Fair LB readers, we figure you’ll have something to say about this one. Dan Abrams, son of First Amendment guru and Cahill Gordon partner Floyd, former host of the Abrams Report (the show that got bumped to give Rachel Maddow her own hour on MSNBC), and CEO of Abrams Research, weighs in with a...