Michael Kelley’s essays on faith and the practice of law are the backbone of The Unsettled Question, the Legal Ministry Network podcast hosted by Anton Sorkin. Two long conversations are out; more are coming.
As incoming president of the Orange County Bar Association in 2021, Eric Reed sat down with Chief Judge Donald A. Myers, Jr. for the Ninth Judicial Circuit’s podcast — a portrait of a lawyer who came to the profession the long way around.
Both claims — that the rooms where lawyers work are holy ground, and that the weapons we fight with there must be spiritual rather than fleshly — are easy to admire from a distance and hard to live by 9:00 on a Tuesday morning. Michael Kelley on how to walk it out.
Before the bench, Sam Salario led a national firm’s securities litigation practice. His 2014 take on Halliburton II — “Fraud on the Market Theory Basically Survives” — and a Law360 Q&A from the same era still say a good deal about how he thinks.
When New York City sued five oil companies over climate change in 2018, it filed in federal court while California cities fought to stay in state court. Hilary Schein asked why — and offered three answers that still hold up.
For Constitution Day: Matthew Casbarro on why the United States has no national referendum, what Article V actually requires, and why the Framers left federal questions to representatives rather than plebiscites.
Twenty years ago the Florida Supreme Court decided Boca Burger v. Forum — the right to amend once, preemption on a motion to dismiss, sanctions for defending a patently erroneous order — and Jessica Slatten wrote the note explaining it. She later spent a decade inside the Court.
A 1960s experiment on how arbitrators decide sat unexamined for half a century. Kristina Klykova’s article in the Journal of International Arbitration brought it back — and its questions about bias are more pressing now than when she wrote it.
Alongside a commercial trial and appellate practice, Anthony Sirven has spent a decade writing — in the Florida Law Review, the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, and elsewhere — about what the law makes of an embryo.
Insights is where the attorneys of Lawson Huck Gonzalez publish their writing — and where we point readers to the writing and speaking they have done elsewhere. Here is what to expect.