Who’s the agitator stirring up a scandal over clerk recruiting bonuses in Texas? He’s Austin lawyer Cris Feldman—a.k.a. court-clerk Public Enemy Number One. Feldman, a staffer with the watchdog group Texans for Public Justice, doesn’t think local Supreme Court clerks ought to take signing bonuses and other perks from the big local law firms that [...]

Maybe it’s just us, but we’ve always suspected that something might go wrong if you lay a person down and shine a ray of concentrated ultraviolet light directly into his eye. Sure enough, laser-eye-surgery malpractice actions have become a hot area of litigation. Since the introduction of laser eye surgery in 1995, the procedure has [...]

Kato? Of course. Who else could be the subject of JD Jungle’s inaugural “Where Are They Now?” column. The guy’s the very apotheosis of an odd late-twentieth/early-twenty-first-century phenomenon—the bit player in a megahyped legal action who gets his fifteen minutes of fame (hell, maybe the whole phenomenon should be called “a Kato”). We caught up [...]

Eyewitness: Wall Brawl Bill Gates has more pesky plaintiffs on his back. This time it’s not the feds but a pack of San Francisco muralists and farm-labor activists. The group filed suit late last year, charging that Corbis Corporation, an Internet stock photo agency founded by Gates, has been illegally peddling pictures of its murals. [...]