Author: Ted Folkman

  • Liveblog: “Lessons of Chevron”

    Welcome to the liveblog of today’s symposium, “Lessons from Chevron”! The symposium is sponsored by the Stanford Journal of Complex Litigation. The liveblog is jointly sponsored by the Journal and by Letters Blogatory. Thank you to editors-in-chief Nick Landsman-Roos and Matt Woleske for agreeing on such short notice to participate in the liveblog. You’ll find……

  • Case of the Day: Khatib v. Murrar

    The case of the day is Khatib v. Murrar (Ill. App. Ct. 2012). Lami Khatib and Najat Murrar were married in Jordan in 2000. At the time of the marriage, Khatib paid Murrar’s father a dowry of one golden dinar, and under the marriage contract there was also a deferred dowry of JOD 5,000. Khatib……

  • Lago Agrio Liveblog Announcement

    Readers, we’re really lucky that two editors of the Stanford Journal of Complex Litigation, Nick Landsman-Roos and Matt Woleske, have seized the day and agreed to liveblog tomorrow’s symposium on the Lago Agrio case. As you can see from the program, we will be hearing from some of the key players in the case—Ted Boutrous,……

  • Symposium Announcement: Lessons from Chevron

    I promise, this is the last Lago Agrio post for the day (for a few days, I hope! We’ll be returning to regular cases of the day tomorrow). The Stanford Journal of Complex Litigation is hosting a symposium tomorrow called “Lessons from Chevron.” The program looks fascinating: it seems that Steven Donziger and Ted Boutrous……

  • Lago Agrio: Cards On The Table

    I have been hearing criticism off-line about the editorial slant of my coverage of the Lago Agrio case (though nothing compared to the drubbing I took from unsuccessful litigants in the Belfast Project case). Why has my coverage become so favorable to Chevron, and so unfavorable to the Lago Agrio plaintiffs? I figure it’s time……