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The first hostages come home
Despite everything, yesterday was a happy day. Three Israeli hostages, Emily Damari, Doron Steinbrecher, and Romi Gonen, were released alive 471 days after they were kidnapped and have been reunited with their families. Is the ceasefire a good deal or not a good deal? I don’t know, but I have my doubts. On the one……
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Donziger and Post-Truth Politics
We live in a “post-truth” age, and it’s not just a problem on the right. I was struck by an Amnesty International article by Elizabeth Haight that calls on President Biden to pardon Steven Donziger, who as longtime readers know is the American lawyer who led a lawsuit in Ecuador seeking and obtaining a judgment……
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Against Generative AI In Legal Writing
The title of this post is polemical, so I’ll start by telling you that I like using generative AI. I have a ChatGPT subscription. I use it all the time for all kinds of things. Some of them are Letters Blogatory related. ChatGPT has helped me design my new search functionality, and it helped me……
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Legal Writing in 2025
I was speaking with one of our excellent litigation associates who is working with me on a memorandum in support of a motion to dismiss in a lawsuit in federal court. She had given me a good draft of her sections of the memo. One thing I noticed, which I see a lot, from the……
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Paper of the Day: Gardner and Dodge on the Email and the Service Convention
Friends of Letters Blogatory Maggie Gardner and Bill Dodge have a great new paper on service by email under the Service Convention . The paper is a very good overview of the topic and very clear about the difference between service that the Convention authorizes and service that it permits and the exclusive or mandatory……