Jonathan Ringel

Jonathan Ringel is managing editor of the Daily Report, the ALM newspaper in Atlanta. He can be reached at [email protected]. Twitter: @jonathanringel

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September 08, 2020 | Daily Report Online

Cancer Patients Sue Over Emissions From Ga. Plants

The Sterigenics' plant near Smyrna and the Becton, Dickinson and Co. site in Covington emitted toxic levels of ethylene oxide that caused the cancers, including breast cancer and leukemia, the lawsuits claim.

By Sudhin Thanawala, Associated Press

3 minute read

September 08, 2020 | Daily Report Online

Raising Your Online Game? Be Alert to Client Confidentiality Risks, Even in Hypotheticals

Whether lawyers are making a concerted effort to bring their marketing online or are simply spending more time online in this time of quarantine, lawyers should review the rules on maintaining client confidences.

By Shari L. Klevens and Alanna Clair

6 minute read

September 03, 2020 | Daily Report Online

Six Months Into the New Normal, What Do Lawyers Miss, and What's Improved?

Lawyers reported overwhelmingly that they miss people—especially colleagues with whom they plot strategy, share lunch and exchange ideas, handshakes and hugs. As for improvements, lawyers praised videoconferences for depositions and simple court matters as saving countless hours.

By Jonathan Ringel

12 minute read

September 03, 2020 | Daily Report Online

In Bostock's Wake, Look for More Diversity Training, Sex Bias Cases and LGBT Workers Living Openly

The recent LGBT decision is also likely to lead to more employment cases surviving summary judgment motions in the lower courts.

By Amanda Farahany and Christine Green

5 minute read

September 02, 2020 | Daily Report Online

COVID-19 Could Prompt Employers to Offer Telemedicine With Health Benefits Plans

Whether an employer's workforce continues to work fully remote, there is no question but that individuals' desire to access medical services remotely will continue well into the future.

By Ann E. Murray

5 minute read

September 01, 2020 | Daily Report Online

Circuit Split Deepened by Second Circuit's 'Functional' Test Application in Recent Section 1782 Ruling

Identically-situated parties seeking discovery in support of arbitration before the same private tribunal will receive different receptions in the Second and Fifth Circuits than in the Sixth and Fourth Circuits. Litigants before the Eleventh Circuit and elsewhere will be writing on a blank jurisprudential slate.

By Peter B. "Bo" Rutledge and Emina Sadic Herzberger.

6 minute read

August 31, 2020 | Daily Report Online

Gay Couple's Child Born in England Is a US Citizen, Says Atlanta Federal Judge

The State Department, which has appealed similar orders in other cases, is aware of the ruling and is reviewing it with the Department of Justice, according to an an agency spokesperson.

By Kate Brumback, Associated Press

4 minute read

August 31, 2020 | Daily Report Online

Invest in Training to Make Document Review Efficient

Provide feedback to the document reviewers early and often.

By Todd Heffner

5 minute read

August 28, 2020 | Daily Report Online

Changing of the Guard Amid Calls for Social Justice

Anti-racism dialogue must happen and continue until our country lives up to its promise of being "one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all."

By Gail S. Tusan

6 minute read

August 27, 2020 | Daily Report Online

On Divisive Mask Issue, Law Firm CEO Built Consensus in School Board Post

"Masks become an obvious tool" in maximizing the chances schools could stay open, said Taylor English CEO Kirk Hancock.

By Jonathan Ringel

3 minute read

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