April 30, 2007

• The calming storm? Sen. Lott and State Farm settle his Katrina insurance suit [AP]


• Did you know much-honored Harvard lawprof Arthur Miller "has had a longstanding relationship with Milberg Weiss"? [Lattman; more on lawprof consultants from NLJ]


• Despite hype, activists have failed to prove bias underlies male-female pay gap [Chapman]


• Calling Gerry Spence a limousine liberal may not be great for your career as a young trial lawyer [Cernovich]


• Some N.J. lawmakers would like to ban lawyers from soliciting as clients persons whose names are scraped from court and police records [NJLJ]


• Billions at stake as Supreme Court mulls whether to uphold exemption of home health workers from FLSA wage/hour standards [AP]


• Just sad: tenured prof departs Iowa Law School (albeit with big severance) after faking student evaluations [Volokh]