Gillette-Torvik Blog

I spend much of my free time following sports. In my lucid moments, rare as they are, I find this use of time hard to justify. What do I get...

In August , I noted that Herman Cain, Thaddeus McCotter , and Newt Gingrich would "never, ever, ever be the GOP nominee for president i...

On Thursday I posted about Rebekah Nett . Ms. Nett is a Minnesota attorney who has made the news lately because she is facing a sanction of...

When asked (and sometimes without being asked), I identify my religon as Roman Catholic. Some of my irreligious friends believe that I am so...

UPDATE: In the posts below, I discussed a district court order holding that Chris Kokenis, an accused tax evader, had to take the stand to...

As I reported shortly after he won reelection to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, David Prosser is old .  At the time, I predicted that he'd...

An op-ed in the New York Times  by Clifford Winston of the Brookings Institution proposes doing away with the barriers to entry–namely, law ...

I was struck by a recent letter to the editor in the September 26, 2011 issue of The New Yorker .  In response to Jeffrey Toobin's prof...

Back in December, we did a post on Olubunmi Okanlami , the Indiana attorney who was arrested and accused of beating up her boyfriend. Amon...

Several media outlets are reporting about a death penalty case that was heard by the Supreme Court on Tuesday. The case, Maples v. Thomas , ...