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Appellate Law

Representing Amici Curiae In High-Profile Appeals

Larry Ebner, executive vice president and general counsel of the Atlantic Legal Foundation, discusses the organization and the important role that it plays by filing amicus curiae, “friend of the court,” briefs in key Supreme Court, federal court of appeals, and state appellate court cases that implicate the foundation’s mission areas.

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Appellate Law

A Call for Customer-Centric Courts

Last month, in the sweltering depths of a tumultuous summer, the Conference of Chief Justices (CCJ), an association of top state judicial leaders, and its civilian counterpart, the Conference of State Court Administrators (COSCA), took an important, if little noticed, step toward righting a badly...

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Real Estate

Civil Justice Playbook: Corporate America Loses a (Sometimes) Champion in Scalia

When we heard of the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, our first instinct was to reach out to the Washington Legal Foundation, a public-interest law firm and policy outfit that focuses on “free enterprise” issues on the radar of our in-house readers. The WLF is engaged in many of these...

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