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How Lawyers Arrange Lawsuit Payments While Watching for Ethical Traps
The path settlement funds take from a defendant to a personal injury plaintiff can radically change how much the plaintiff keeps. Often, slowing settlement negotiations to plan that path, or convince defendants to cooperate, is impractical. Originally Published on Forbes.com…By: Structured Consulting
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Iran Protests Quelled Since Deadly Crackdown, Residents Say
“There is massive disappointment and disillusionment,” one Tehran resident said. A human rights group acknowledged that demonstrations had been subdued since Sunday, with thousands of people detained.
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Trump Chooses Venezuela’s Oil Over Democracy
Two conversations this week confirmed that President Trump backs the remnants of Nicolás Maduro’s regime over the Venezuelan opposition seeking to hold elections.
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Antiwar Russians in Europe Learn That They Must Watch Their Words
A backlash over a rant against Ukrainian officials has raised questions about Eastern Europe’s welcome of Russian dissidents.
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Iran Has Had Protests Before. Will This Time Be Different?
Understanding the factors that can topple regimes.
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Canada Strikes Tariffs Deal With China, as Carney Looks to Diversify From U.S.
China will in turn cut its own tariffs on Canadian canola products, Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada said in Beijing on Friday.
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After an Earthquake, Preserving a Slow Craft in a Fast World
In Wajima, Japan, where hundreds of homes and studios were destroyed, master-class artisans are struggling to keep lacquer alive and nurture the next generation of creators.
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Remote-Droppers and Jeff Bridges: Nick Digilio on His Book About 40 Years Reviewing Movies
Nick Digilio has been a movie critic for 40 years, for many of those years on WGN radio, now with a popular podcast and hosting screenings in Chicago. And I’ve been talking to him about movies for 25 of those years. I still remember our first conversation, which included a discussion of “Donnie Darko” and…
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Aim Your Rage at the Right Target: Park Chan-wook and Lee Byung-hun on “No Other Choice”
In Korean, there’s a custom called 삼년상 (phonetic spelling/pronunciation: sam-nyun-sang). Back in the days of the Joseon dynasty, when a household’s father passed away, it was customary for adult children, even after the funeral, to build a shack near the burial site and live there for at least three years. It represents a way for…
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“Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials” Will Send Your Snooze Button Into Overdrive
During her lifetime, Agatha Christie never hid her displeasure at the quality of film and TV adaptations of her novels. Though she herself wrote a letter in 1946 to legendary actress Joan Hickson saying, “I hope you will one day play my dear Miss Marple,” Christie died in 1976, eight years before Hickson’s TV premiere…
