by Adam J. Glazer | Apr 9, 2014 | Adam J. Glazer, Insights
He’s not a big name in Chicago, but Vito J. Lopez is notorious in New York. Once considered among the state’s most powerful politicians, the former chairman of the Brooklyn Democrats and longtime state assemblyman resigned from office in disgrace last year after two...
by Adam J. Glazer | Mar 10, 2014 | Adam J. Glazer, Insights
Just in time for spring training, baseball litigation seems to be on the upswing. Exhibit A is the suit filed by three ex-farmhands on Feb. 7 in San Francisco federal court alleging Major League Baseball, three of its teams and the commissioner “have preyed upon minor...
by Adam J. Glazer | Feb 4, 2014 | Adam J. Glazer, Insights
Law school finals? The semester barely started. Yet it is never too early to begin constructing the contemporary law school final exam question. Follow the tried‐and‐true law school exam question formula taken from classes mixing law and social policy. Begin with a...
by Adam J. Glazer | Jan 6, 2014 | Adam J. Glazer, Insights
Many a claim is not worth pursuing individually, and will only be brought if a potential class action lurks. How, though, does the individual plaintiff round up enough others to form the makings of a class in actions such as under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA),...
by Adam J. Glazer | Dec 10, 2013 | Adam J. Glazer, Insights
Most readers will remember the saga of Broadway Bank and its demise in early 2010 under the hand of the Giannoulias family. The public airing of the bank’s dirty laundry not only sank Alexi Giannoulias’ U.S. Senate bid that November, but inevitably spawned litigation...
