Trial Attorney (35+ years); CEO @ https://xitter.cf/t.co/7aeZSHNtBM. Innovations at the interface of law, economics, game theory, and conflict and crisis management.
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For a flat fee of $125 USD, the Fair Proposals System lets you pursue a reasonable settlement and determine whether it can currently be achieved in a manner that’s far more credible & efficient than any other method: fairproposals.com
via @NYTOpinion: “What Mr. Bryson [a unionist activist] is protesting, in other words, is the failure of a fair process to dependably produce the results he wants.” nytimes.com/2023/11/21/opini…
via @NYTimes: “He is clearly under pressure” Mr. Moore said of Mr. Putin. “You don’t have a group of mercenaries advance up the motorway toward Rostov and get to within 125 kilometers of Moscow unless you have not quite predicted that was going to happen.” nytimes.com/2023/07/19/world…
Opinion: How NH Republicans can choose the strongest candidate in their presidential primary concordmonitor.com/My-Turn-H…
“A majority of Massachusetts lawyers (77%) reported burnout from their work. Almost half considered leaving or have left their legal employer or the legal profession due to burnout or stress in the last three years.”
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“[T]hey agreed to pay $21 billion over 18 years to settle thousands of lawsuits … [b]ut Cabell County and the city of Huntington … refused to sign on, believing they could get more. ‘Trial is always a gamble, and this one didn’t pay off….”
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Privilege to join @karaswisher + @gtconway3d + @akapczynski. In response to Kara, I suggested at the end that Court might want to set Mississippi abortion case for re-argument in the Fall, or dismiss it as improvidently granted, in this extraord situation. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
via @NYTOpinion: “It’s not an accident that the word ‘peace’ traces back to Latin’s ‘pax’… to making an agreement, a pact: The idea of peace was once processed not as a steady state as much as something achieved by reaching an accord.” nytimes.com/2022/03/08/opini…
“I don’t think we realised quite what the Taliban were up to. They weren’t really fighting for the cities they eventually captured, they were negotiating for them, and I think you’ll find a lot of money changed hands as they managed to buy [them] off ....” theguardian.com/uk-news/2021…
NYT: “I want to make clear my own attitude,” Dr. Lewontin said in 2009. “I think most of the interesting questions about human individual and social behavior will never be answered. The human species will be extinct before they are.”
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NYT: “Dr. Clayton, Dr. Schnell and their colleagues have started to ask: Do cuttlefish have a sense of the future and the recent past? Can they make decisions about what they think is likely to happen in the future?”
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CALL FOR COMMENT: The @ABACJS Plea Bargain Task Force is examining concerns/issues with the plea process. To ensure a range of perspectives in the report we encourage those interested to provide written comments. You can email me at thea.johnson@rutgers.edu and...
Letter by Concerned Economists Regarding “Contracting for Sex in the Pacific War” in the International Review of Law and Economics chwe.net/irle/letter/
via @NYTimes: “[A] kind of living library ... transcribed in every register imaginable by people — biased people, with weird hangups and charming habits — telling the stories of their lives through their most tragic, selfish or trivial problems.” nytimes.com/2020/12/01/magaz…
Prosecutors’ excessive zeal during the Tsarnaev trial - The Boston Globe bostonglobe.com/2020/08/04/o…
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