When we stepped to the plate to defend the Supreme Court’s adoption of a “plausibility” standard for pleading in Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 129 S. Ct. 1937 (U.S. 2009), and Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544 (2007), we knew that academia had been almost uniformly critical. It still is.

But we also learned something else – our peers (often more than that, actually) among the trial bar, agree (more…)