Blawg Republic - LEGAL ETHICS NEWS http://www.blawgrepublic.com/cat/Legal-Ethics/ LEGAL ETHICS NEWS Condesa Inc. Blawg Republic http://www.nuisancelaw.com/news/2010/07/28/california-supreme-court-decides-santa-clara-v-superior-court California Supreme Court decides Santa Clara v. Superior Court Contingency Fee Issue SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline, By John H. O'Brien) - The California Supreme Court has decided its stance on contingency fee agreements between public entities and private a http://www.nuisancelaw.com/news/2010/04/22/california-supreme-court-schedules-hearing-contingency-fee-issue-santa-clara California Supreme Court Schedules Hearing on Contingency Fee Issue in Santa Clara The following cases are placed upon the calendar of the Supreme Court for hearing at its courtroom in the Earl Warren Building, 350 McAllister Street, Fourth Floor, San Francisco, California, on May 3, 4, 5 and 6, 2010. MONDAY, MAY 3, 2010 1:30 P.M. S166435: Claywo http://www.nuisancelaw.com/news/2010/03/05/california-supreme-court-grants-review-priceline-own-motion California Supreme Court Grants Review of Priceline on Own Motion As previously reported, on March 4, David Axelrad of Horvitz Levy LLP filed with the California Supreme Court a http://www.nuisancelaw.com/news/2010/03/04/california%E2%80%99s-continued-flirtation-contingency-fee-counsel-request-depublication-pric Californias Continued Flirtation With Contingency Fee Counsel: Request for Depublication of Priceline Decision Filed David Axelrad of Horvitz & Levy LLP today filed with the California Supreme Court a http://www.nuisancelaw.com/news/2010/03/01/5th-circuit-court-appeals-orders-re-hearing-comer 5th Circuit Court of Appeals Orders Re-Hearing in Comer Today, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ordered a re-hearing of the Comer decision.  You can read more about this case and access the Order http://www.nuisancelaw.com/news/2010/03/01/crucible-common-sense-real-and-illusory-expectations-copenhagen The Crucible of Common Sense: Real and Illusory Expectations In Copenhagen He hoped that in a time of war and common danger he might take the liberty of putting those opposite assertions into the crucible of Common Sense, consuming the Humbug, and producing the Truth. 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"Clearing the Air in Copenhagen" http://www.nuisancelaw.com/news/2009/12/30/new-climate-litigation The New Climate Litigation Fresh from the fiasco in Copenhagen and with a failure in the U.S. Senate looming this coming year, the climate-change lobby is already shifting to Plan B, or is it already Plan D? Meet the carbon tort. Across the country, trial lawyers and green pressure groupsif that's not redundantare t http://www.nuisancelaw.com/news/2010/01/15/bringing-diplomacy-boil-options-agreements-copenhagen Bringing Diplomacy to a Boil: Options for Agreements in Copenhagen Richard Faulk. "Bringing Diplomacy to a Boil: Options for Agreements in Copenhagen" Andrews Litigation Reporter 30.11 (2009).  Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and caldron bubble. William Shake http://www.nuisancelaw.com/news/2010/01/08/copenhagen%E2%80%99s-disappointing-denouement-anatomy-failed-convocation Copenhagens Disappointing Denouement: Anatomy of a Failed Convocation Richard Faulk. "COPENHAGEN’S DISAPPOINTING DÉNOUEMENT: ANATOMY OF A FAILED CONVOCATION" Andrews Litigation Reporter 30.11 (2009). All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women mere http://www.nuisancelaw.com/news/2010/01/15/negotiating-someone-elses-money-shifting-responsibility-climate-change-funding Negotiating With Someone Else's Money: Shifting the Responsibility for Climate Change Funding Richard Faulk. "Negotiating With Someone Else's Money: Shifting the Responsibility for Climate Change Funding" Andrews Litigation Reporter 30.11 (2009). http://www.nuisancelaw.com/news/2010/01/22/climategate-controversy-tree-falls-forest-copenhagen-listening The "Climategate" Controversy: A Tree Falls in the Forest -- But Is Copenhagen Listening? Richard Faulk. "The "Climategate" Controversy: A Tree Falls in the Forest -- But Is Copenhagen Listening?" Andrews Litigation Reporter  30.11 (2009). It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, si http://www.nuisancelaw.com/news/2010/02/03/first-official-draft-copenhagen-agreement-blanks-brackets-chewing-gum-and-baling-wir The First "Official" Draft of the Copenhagen Agreement: Blanks, Brackets, Chewing Gum, and Baling Wire Richard Faulk. "The First "Official" Draft of the Copenhagen Agreement: Blanks, Brackets, Chewing Gum, and Baling Wire" Andrews Litigation Reporter 30.11 (2009).