By Hayes Hunt and Jonathan R. Cavalier Most in-house lawyers, if they’re fortunate, haven’t bumped up against the Fifth Amendment and its related issues since the bar exam. After all, the so-called “nickel” typically arises solely in the criminal context,…
Monthly Archives: May 2013
Fifth Amendment Fundamentals – Taking the Nickel
Tagged with: Corporate Compliance, Corporate Counsel, Corporate Executives, Fifth Amendment, government investigation, Self-Incrimination
Posted in Corporate Compliance
Posted in Corporate Compliance
A Trial Lawyer’s Stutter and the “Give and Take” of Success
By David Walton About a year or so ago, around the same time that the movie The King’s Speech won the Academy Award, I wrote a piece for From The Sidebar regarding an experience I had at trial regarding my…
Tagged with: Adam Grant, David Walton, Give and Take, King's Speech, Practice of Law
Posted in The Practice of Law
Posted in The Practice of Law
Coercive Litigation Tactics – Playing Hardball in The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois v. Micron Technology Inc.
By Hayes Hunt and Thomas M. O’Rourke It is not uncommon for the parties to play hardball litigation to exert pressure on the other side to settle a case. But if your opposing party engages in tactics that you perceive…
