Before becoming LegalReader's Editor-in-Chief, Jay W. Belle Isle worked as a freelance copywriter with clients on four continents. Jay has a degree in Business Administration from Cleary University and a Juris Doctor from Thomas M. Cooley Law School. Jay has also worked as a contracts administrator for a DOD contractor specializing in vehicle armor.
Earlier in January, McKeen & Associates announced it has filed a complaint against a Fayetteville, Arkansas-based midwifery, A Mommy’s Butterfly of Midwifery Services, on behalf of a mother who hired midwives from the company for a home birth and pre-natal services. Brian McKeen and Andrew Kay of McKeen & Associates of Detroit, Michigan, filed the
DBusiness magazine, a Detroit, Michigan based publication, has honored seven local lawyers.
Safe driving is important year-round, but even moreso in the slip-and-slide conditions of winter roads.
Over the past decade, only 12K contract dispute cases awarded damages by the courts (vs. cases that settled). Legal analytics will upend this by giving attorneys unprecedented advantage in court by helping them predict the behaviors and outcomes different legal strategies will produce.
One of Michigan’s top bankruptcy and insolvency lawyers, Earle I. Erman was honored for overall excellence in his practice area.
LexisNexis’ Context Analytics solution is a powerful tool giving lawyers the power of data-driven analytics regarding judges and expert witnesses.
ERISA case outcomes are not employer-friendly, according to Lex Machina data. To protect companies when litigation over a company-sponsored benefits plan arises, attorneys need to be able to find and analyze similar cases that have appeared before their judge in order to develop the best legal strategies. The ERISA module provides data-driven insights and trends
Res judicata – An issue that has been adjudicated already. The same parties can’t bring the same matter again.
Race Judicata – A fun run involving competing lawyers. Team Maddin Hauser can bring the heat again in 2019!
Even after the California wildfires were contained, the threat to public health and safety continues in the form of dangerous air pollution.
Much like the carefully orchestrated de-legalization of cannabis during the 1930’s, there was a powerful decades-long misleading campaign against psilocybin mushrooms which caused a deep-rooted fear and a subsequent public rejection of this substance.