.), distinguished state and federal judges with extensive MDL experience; academic commentators Alexandra Lahav (Connecticut), Robin Effron (Chicago), Richard Marcus (Hastings), Francis McGovern (Duke), and Edward Sherman (Tulane); and practitioners intimately involved with multidistrict litigation on both sides of the bar today, such as Richard Arsenault (Neblett, Beard), Judy Barrasso (Barrasso, Usdin), Dawn Barrios (Barrios, Kingsdorf), Russ Herman (Herman, Herman),… [read post]

., 2016 Message of His Holiness Francis for the Celebration of the World Day of Peace (Overcome Indifference and Win Peace), 1 Jan 2016 ("With this in mind, I would like to make a threefold appeal to the leaders of nations: to refrain from drawing other peoples into conflicts or wars which destroy not only their material, cultural and social legacy, but also – and in the long term – their moral and spiritual integrity; to forgive or manage in a sustainable way the… [read post]