This article is more than 10 years old. [Its] limitations are immediately apparent when the template is used—as is frequently the case—to accuse an entire website or channel of commerce of infringing, ...

About a year ago a colleague brought our attention to the increase in irrelevant, inflammatory, scandalous, and improper language in plaintiff pleadings in catastrophic injury, fire, and death cases.

My latest article, The Rise and Fall of Plausibility Pleading?, has just been published in the Vanderbilt Law Review. It builds on some of my earlier work on pleading (here and here), focusing on the ...

In Pennsylvania, civil litigants may file preliminary objections after they are served with a complaint or other pleading. Preliminary objections are Pennsylvania’s version of a pre-answer motion to ...

Pleadings control everything in your case—who the parties are, what the issues are, what discovery is permissible, what remedies are available, and what defenses are raised. Drafting strategically is ...