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U.S. Senator Dick Durbin Remarks on the War on Drugs After 40 Years Pleading Affirmative Defenses After Twombly and Iqbal, By Derek Molter Handling Jury Instructions With Care, By Matthew D. Krueger and A.J. Peterman Choosing ADR For Commercial Contract Disputes: the Good, the Bad, and the Common Law, By Freya K. Bowen Emails, By Mark Neubauer Petitions for Review of Second and Successive Class Certification Orders Under Rule 23(f): A Practitioner’ s Guide, By Frank M. Dickerson III Quit Using Times New Roman! (and Other Thoughts on Legal Typography), By William Katt A Trial Lawyer's Guide to Patent Jury Litigation, By Edward L. Foote and Peter McCabe The Alien Tort Statute After Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum, By Hon. Ian L. Levin (Retired) and John J. Pavich Judge Sara Ellis, By Ron Safer Judge Andrea Wood, Jonathan Polish A Tribute to Arlander Keys on His Retirement from the Bench, By Jeffrey Cole A Tribute to Mike Mahoney on His Retirement from the Bench, By Iain Johnston

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Letter from the President . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2 U.S. Senator Dick Durbin Remarks on the War on Drugs After 40 Years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-8 Pleading Affirmative Defenses After Twombly and Iqbal, By Derek Molter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-19 Handling Jury Instructions With Care, By Matthew D. Krueger and A.J. Peterman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20-23 Choosing ADR For Commercial Contract Disputes: the Good, the Bad, and the Common Law, By Freya K. Bowen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24-28 Emails By Mark Neubauer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29-30 Petitions for Review of Second and Successive Class Certification Orders Under Rule 23(f): A Practitioner’ s Guide, By Frank M. Dickerson III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31-37 Quit Using Times New Roman! (and Other Thoughts on Legal Typography), By William Katt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38-41 A Trial Lawyer’s Guide to Patent Jury Litigation, By Edward L. Foote and Peter McCabe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42-52 The Alien Tort Statute After Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum,

Events of Interest Around the Circuit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Federal Bar Association Chicago Chapter Upcoming Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Judge Sara Ellis, By Ron Safer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Judge Andrea Wood, By Jonathan Polish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 A Tribute to Arlander Keys on His Retirement from the Bench, By Jeffrey Cole . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66-67 A Tribute to Mike Mahoney on His Retirement from the Bench, By Iain Johnston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68-69 Seventh Circuit Annual Report Summary, By Gino Agnello . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Send Us Your E-Mail. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Writers Wanted! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23 Get Involved. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28 Upcoming Board of Governors’ Meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37 Seventh Circuit Bar Association Officers for 2013-2014 / Board of Governors / Editorial Board. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .71

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here is no question that the worst thing that has happened in my life is the invention of email. All

• f us are drowning in emails; hundreds of emails each day. And they cannot be ignored. Some are merely

“junk” emails – masses of communication sent to millions of us. But others have great import — business or personal — with the sender anxiously waiting for a response. Each of us becomes impatient when we reach out to someone else by email and they do not instantaneously

• respond. “What is the matter with them?” we ask ourselves. “Why hasn’t she responded to my email

– it’s been an hour.” So we feel to compelled to rapidly respond to emails. And while we are responding to one email, a prompt comes up interrupting our thought, so we get yet another email. Gone are prior means of communication. Faxes are extinct. Written letters are becoming rapidly a

• dinosaur. Even voicemail is declining in usage. And heaven forbid we actually walk down the hall to

see someone. In short, we are not talking to each other, but content to text or email someone. Emails lead to misinterpretation. We do not hear a vocal inflection of the sender and think someone is angry when they are not. The sender cannot gauge the demeanor of the recipient, eliminating the ability to backtrack when someone misinterprets an email.

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formerly national chair of the commercial litigation practice at Steptoe & Johnson. He is the former Editor-in-Chief of LITIGATION, the nationally recognized journal of the Section of Litigation of the American Bar Association, in which he has held a number of leadership positions. He is the author of numerous articles on trial practice and commercial litigation and writes an occasional but he observes unobtrusive email.

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Continued from page 29 No one I know has been able to manage their emails. Instead, we spend countless hours each day sorting emails into file cabinets for later retrieval. In both business and law, emails become something that run our life. Emails require a new etiquette. Not only responding promptly, but using obscure abbreviations like “LOL” or the proverbial happy face. Simple manners become

• annoyances. Please don’t say “thank you”

to my email. It merely requires me to require another 10 seconds reading it and deleting

• it. Heaven forbid, do not “Reply All” when

you only need to reply to the sender, and the worst offender is the person who uses “Reply All” to say “Thank you.” That single act it can require thousands of people to merely go through the action of

• deleting. Think of the time cumulatively

spent on that simple delete keystroke. Worse, the pace of emails precludes thought and deliberation. Instead, we respond without thinking with whatever words immediately traipse across our mind. Often those are the wrong words. A wizened old judge tells the story that captures the drawbacks

• f emails:

“Years ago, partners in law firms had secretaries. They performed a weird ritual called ‘shorthand.’ When you became agitated against one of your partners, you would call your secretary in and dictate a lengthy diatribe. Wisely, she would not type that diatribe until after you returned from your three- martini lunch. By then, your anger of the moment had worn off. When she showed you your earlier tirade, you waived it off saying, ‘Aw, Jim’s an OK guy. Just rip up that note.’ Today, however, you instantaneously send Jim an angry email. He responds in kind. Back and forth like a tennis volley, the angry emails go in a verbal war.” This isn’t progress. It is the decline of human interaction. So remember some simple thoughts in dealing with emails. “KIS.” Keep it

• simple. Wait before you send an email or

a response. Reflect on the email as if it had the same gravity as that old formal

• letter. Review each email as if you may
• ne day be called to a witness stand and

not be embarrassed by what you wrote. And when in doubt about an email, don’t send it. It will save you the agony of an angry email war. In short, emails have changed our world. They make communication easier but also harder at the same time.