Like many of you, on Friday mornings we turn to the "Legal
Lions and Lambs" section of Law360. It is not only voyeurism.
We are constantly working on things in media res (the
middle of things), building slowly and gradually to a climax that
hardly ever arrives. Ninety percent of cases settle, and that is
seldom the stuff of Lions or Lambs. Nope: the Lions vs Lambs
dichotomy is about winning and losing. Not in any subtle sense,
either. The Law360 column focuses on trial verdicts or dispositive
motions. Those outcomes furnish teaching moments, points of
inspiration, object lessons, or cautionary tales. We have never
personally shown up on either side of the list as far as we know,
mirabile dictu (wonder to say – surely mastery of
Latin is a mark of a Legal Lion, no?), given that we played a minor
role in that vast stain on Anglo-American jurisprudence
not-so-fondly remembered as the Engle tobacco litigation in
Miami).
