Conventional wisdom dictates that a lawyer being sued for legal malpractice in New York will rarely win a motion to dismiss based on lack of causation. Nevertheless, the case law suggests that a ...

Katherine W. Dandy and Max G. Gaujean, partners at Brown & Tarantino, write that the Court of Appeals allows a defaulting defendant to introduce proof that will be "determinative of the plaintiff's ...

Hurricane Harvey is the strongest hurricane to hit the Texas coast in over 55 years. Like all hurricanes, in some locations Harvey produced strong winds causing wind uplift and projectile property ...

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If the recently proposed anti-concurrent causation bill in New York (Assembly No. A07455/ Senate No. S05581) is enacted, it is unclear what arguments will be made regarding its application. However, ...

Energy & Environment, Vol. 11, No. 2, SPECIAL ISSUE: LOW LEVEL RADIATION, NUCLEAR POWER AND THE LAW (2000), pp. 207-216 (10 pages) Traditionally tort (personal injury) cases have been regarded as ...

The Harvard Law Review publishes articles by professors, judges, and practitioners and solicits reviews of important recent books from recognized experts. Each issue also contains pieces by student ...

I REFER to the debate in the Letters Pages on the issue of assisted suicide (March 31, April 1 & 2) and in particular the letter from Professor James Chalmers published on April 2. He asserts that the ...

Even if the misconduct of government lawyers fails to scuttle prosecutorial efforts to get the death penalty for alleged 9/11 co-conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui, it’s become clear less than a week into ...