
Artificial unintelligence
By Marcel Strigberger | April 29, 2025 New York Court not crazy about surprise AI presentation. Humans 1, Technology 0. Sort of. A New York State appellate court allowed James Dewald, the plaintiff in an employment case, to submit his argument via video. The presentation, however, lasted but a few seconds after Dewald represented himself […]

Top 10 business decisions for 2024 – – and the law firm players, Part II
By Julius Melnitzer | January 29, 2025 Here is the second part of Law360 Canada’s annual list of the Top 10 business decisions in Canada for the year just ended. This is a two-part series, which began in Part I with our honourable mentions and the cases ranked 6-10. What follows are the Top 5 […]

Called to the bar and grill
By Marcel Strigberger | January 21, 2025 Can a judge make peace between hostile lawyers by ordering them to have lunch together? In the Alabama case of McCullers v Koch Foods of Alabama, the two lawyers involved were not getting along too well. Defense counsel moved to amend his pleading and plaintiff’s counsel opposed the request unless defendant agreed not […]

Top 10 business decisions for 2024 – – and the law firms involved, Part I
By Julius Melnitzer | January 20, 2025 Here is Law360 Canada’s annual list of the Top 10 business decisions in Canada for the year just ended. This is a two-part series, which begins below with our honourable mentions, followed by the cases ranked 6-10, in ascending order. Part II will deal with cases ranked 1-5. Honourable mention […]

Yes, We Have No Insurance Coverage Today
By Marcel Strigberger | November 26, 2024 The following is an excerpt from Marcel Strigberger’s new book, First, Let’s Kill the Lawyer Jokes: An Attorney’s Irreverent Serious Look at the Legal Universe I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall someday die, which is not so – Stephen Butler Leacock As lawyers, many of us either fight […]