Legal Samples

This first sample is a review of a survey by the Association of Corporate Counsel. It discusses, among other things, the major concerns that corporate counsel have with outside counsel:

Key Results from ACC’s Managing Outside Counsel Survey (html)

The following samples are from two courses I authored:

Insider Trading (pdf)

Employment Discrimination (pdf)

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The next sample is a client alert I revised:

Here’s the original alert (html).

And here’s the revised alert (html).

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I wrote an amicus brief in the case that began as Newdow v. U.S. Congress, more commonly known as the Pledge of Allegiance case.

I had been following the case for some time. Not long after SCOTUS granted cert, there were scores of briefs supporting the petitioner — The Elk Grove Unified School District. Even the United States — which was no longer a party to the case — actively supported the petitioner. There were just two briefs supporting the respondent — Michael Newdow.

I decided to file an amicus brief supporting Newdow. As you review it, keep this in mind — there were just two weeks between the time I decided to prepare a brief and the time the brief was filed.

Two weeks!

Thorne’s Brief (pdf)

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Here’s another Client Alert I revised.

Here’s the original alert (pdf).

Here’s the revised alert (pdf).

And here are my edits and comments (doc).

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This next sample is a warranty I wrote for a software developer. Unlike many software warranties, this one assigns specific responsibilities to the developer. And that’s a smart thing to do, both from a legal standpoint and from a marketing perspective.

Limited Warranty (pdf)

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Here’s another Client Alert I revised.

Here’s the original alert (pdf).

Here’s the revised alert (pdf).

And here are my edits and comments (doc).