James F. Ring
@FairOutcomes
Trial Attorney (35+ years); CEO @ http://fairproposals.com. Innovations at the interface of law, economics, game theory, and conflict and crisis management.
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For a flat fee of $125 USD, the Fair Proposals System lets you pursue a reasonable settlement and determine whether it can currently be achieved in a manner that’s far more credible & efficient than any other method: fairproposals.com
via @NYTOpinion: “What Mr. Bryson [a unionist activist] is protesting, in other words, is the failure of a fair process to dependably produce the results he wants.” nytimes.com/2023/11/21/opi…
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Opinion | Is Ireland Headed for a Merger? (Published 2023)
Have demographics and Brexit made unification inevitable?
via @NYTimes: “He is clearly under pressure” Mr. Moore said of Mr. Putin. “You don’t have a group of mercenaries advance up the motorway toward Rostov and get to within 125 kilometers of Moscow unless you have not quite predicted that was going to happen.” nytimes.com/2023/07/19/wor…
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Britain’s Spy Master Says Putin Cut Deal With Wagner Mercenary Chief (Gift Article)
Richard Moore, the chief of MI6, said the Russian leader acted “to save his skin,” offering rare insights into the events surrounding the sudden end of Yevgeny V. Prigozhin’s march on Moscow.
Opinion: How NH Republicans can choose the strongest candidate in their presidential primary concordmonitor.com/My-Turn-How-NH…
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Opinion: How NH Republicans can choose the strongest candidate in their presidential primary -...
Steven J. Brams, a native of Concord, is a professor of politics at New York University. He is the author of “The Presidential Election Game” and “Mathematics and Democracy: Designing Better Voting...
“A majority of Massachusetts lawyers (77%) reported burnout from their work. Almost half considered leaving or have left their legal employer or the legal profession due to burnout or stress in the last three years.” norc.org/PDFs/Mass%20La…
via @NYTimes nytimes.com/2022/07/05/hea… “[T]hey agreed to pay $21 billion over 18 years to settle thousands of lawsuits … [b]ut Cabell County and the city of Huntington … refused to sign on, believing they could get more. ‘Trial is always a gamble, and this one didn’t pay off….”
Privilege to join @karaswisher + @gtconway3d + @akapczynski. In response to Kara, I suggested at the end that Court might want to set Mississippi abortion case for re-argument in the Fall, or dismiss it as improvidently granted, in this extraord situation. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/swa…
Almost all U.S legal cases are resolved by bargaining. The same is true of #SCOTUS cases: the Justices posture, negotiate & try to cut deals with at least 4 colleagues. A leak of a draft opinion skews the leverage, corrupting the outcome. The appeal should be dismissed. #Mistrial
via @NYTOpinion: “It’s not an accident that the word ‘peace’ traces back to Latin’s ‘pax’… to making an agreement, a pact: The idea of peace was once processed not as a steady state as much as something achieved by reaching an accord.” nytimes.com/2022/03/08/opi…
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Opinion | The War in Ukraine Puts America’s Problems in Perspective (Published 2022)
Something for histrionic critics here at home to consider.
“I don’t think we realised quite what the Taliban were up to. They weren’t really fighting for the cities they eventually captured, they were negotiating for them, and I think you’ll find a lot of money changed hands as they managed to buy [them] off ....” theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/s…
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‘Everybody got it wrong’ on Taliban strategy, says UK defence chief
Nick Carter hits back at Raab’s suggestion of flawed intelligence, saying ‘it was entirely possible’ Afghan government would fall
NYT: “I want to make clear my own attitude,” Dr. Lewontin said in 2009. “I think most of the interesting questions about human individual and social behavior will never be answered. The human species will be extinct before they are.” nytimes.com/2021/07/07/sci…
NYT: “Dr. Clayton, Dr. Schnell and their colleagues have started to ask: Do cuttlefish have a sense of the future and the recent past? Can they make decisions about what they think is likely to happen in the future?” nytimes.com/2021/07/09/sci…
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Did a Cuttlefish Write This? (Published 2021)
Octopuses and squid are full of cephalopod character. But more scientists are making the case that cuttlefish hold the key to unlocking evolutionary secrets about intelligence.
CALL FOR COMMENT: The @ABACJS Plea Bargain Task Force is examining concerns/issues with the plea process. To ensure a range of perspectives in the report we encourage those interested to provide written comments. You can email me at [email protected] and...
Letter by Concerned Economists Regarding “Contracting for Sex in the Pacific War” in the International Review of Law and Economics chwe.net/irle/letter/
via @NYTimes: “[A] kind of living library ... transcribed in every register imaginable by people — biased people, with weird hangups and charming habits — telling the stories of their lives through their most tragic, selfish or trivial problems.” nytimes.com/2020/12/01/mag…
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I Read Court Documents for Fun. Hear Me Out. (Published 2020)
Trial lawyers are storytellers. Take the case of the Velvet Elvis, a kitschy cigar lounge that got on the wrong side of the Presley estate.
Prosecutors’ excessive zeal during the Tsarnaev trial - The Boston Globe bostonglobe.com/2020/08/04/opi…
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Prosecutors’ excessive zeal during the Tsarnaev trial - The Boston Globe
Their overreach during the first trial may now require a second one.
Fair Outcomes, Inc. is now providing free use of the dispute resolution system at fairproposals.com for Attys. providing LSR on monetary claims; for all other Attys. it’s only $125 per claim. (For general info on LSR see below)#A2J #Courts #LegalTech americanbar.org/groups/deliver…
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