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And it’s Garland. After a month of speculation, President Obama upset many oddsmakers and nominated Chief Judge of the D.C. Circuit, Merrick Garland, for the Supreme Court. Garland is a bit of a surprise — he’s older, whiter, and more centrist than some of the others under consideration — but he’s also a widely respected […]Read More

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a Supreme Court nominee. This morning, President Obama put forth Merrick Garland, Chief Judge of the D.C. Circuit, as a potential replacement for the seat vacated more than a month ago, when Justice Antonin Scalia passed away. Garland is a moderate liberal, respected as a “brilliant” jurist by attorneys, judges, […]

Sure, keep your Post-It notes and legal pads, your expensive pens and marble paperweights. But when it comes to the important stuff — client files, court filings, memos and the like — your firm should be paperless. Going paperless makes it easier to maintain and organize your records, share information between members of your firm, […]

Television loves lawyers. And lawyers love to watch other lawyers. At FindLaw, HTGAWM and Better Call Saul are mentioned frequently over cups of gourmet coffee. For those of you who’ve been too busy to keep up with the latest on your television (or device), here are few quick and dirty summaries of our favorite television […]

We’re a quarter through 2016 and we think we’ve found this year’s current winner of the most profane piece of work product. Michigan lawyer Bradley J. Shafer prefaced his mediation summary of his stripper club case with some personal comments about the nature of his industry and strippers in general. And then, he goes ape. […]Read More

For several years, there have been different brass rings to reach for within the legal profession. The most common recurring of these including being named partner and in-house counsel (or better yet, GC) — though the orders tend to switch. But for most lawyers, that isn’t going to happen or it will be a while […]

With the Fed Funds market now slashing rate-hike expectations for the rest of the year… Just as The Fed tries to catch down to the market expectations, the biggest winner so far from the cowardly Fed is… a pet rock. It appears “faith” in central bank omnipotence is fading fast. Average: Your rating: None Average: […]

Tumbling US unemployment and surging US inflation is not what really matters to ‘Global’ Janet. She knows what happened the last time “market” expectations were so disclocatedly bullish relative to “economic” expectations… and doesn’t want to be driving the current bus off the great-er depression cliff… A ‘hold’ in Sept – rally; a ‘hike’ in […]Read More

Goldman’s Robin Brooks has to be a sadist: that is the only way we can explain his ability to crush the greatest number of Goldman clients at every possible opportunity. First, of course, it was his call to go very short the EURUSD ahead of the December ECB meeting, which however led to the biggest […]

One of the biggest scandals at the end of 2014 was the dramatic confirmation courtesy of 48 hours of declassified tapes by former NY Fed staffer Carmen Segarra that not only Goldman Sachs controls the New York Fed (headed by former Goldman managing director Bill Dudley), but that disturbingly one of Goldman Sachs’ then-employees, former […]

With gold up 15% since The Fed hiked in December (and stocks lower) and the market pricing a hike today at just 4% (June 53%), it is not surprising that Janet panicced and folded again in the face of “unequivocally good” data based on what the “Dow Data Dependent” Fed has said it monitors. Of […]

Submitted by Martin Armstrong via ArmstrongEconomics.com, A Republican Party split is looking much closer after Tuesday. Trump won Florida, Rubio’s home state, and that led Rubio to drop out. However, Trump was denied a victory in Ohio, which was won by its own sitting governor, John Kasich. This will make it very difficult for Trump to […]Read More