Practitioners should understand the basics of certification, think strategically about how to utilize certification effectively in their cases and how to oppose it when it might work to their ...

Some types of orders are not appealable absent permission; others require additional procedural steps before an appeal can be taken. This article explores those nuances. On its face, CPLR 5701 (titled ...

Professor Thomas Main (Univ. of Pacific) has posted to SSRN his article, The Procedural Foundation of Substantive Law, 87 Wash. Univ. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2009). Here's the abstract: The ...

This seminar provides an intensive introduction to civil litigation. It requires students to have knowledge and understanding of substantive law in basic common law fields, e.g., Torts, Contracts, and ...