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Kristie Rearick

Kristie Rearick

Kristie Rearick is the magazines and publications editor at The Legal Intelligencer. She handles contributed content for the newspaper. Contact her [email protected].

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August 12, 2024 | Daily Business Review

Life Changing: Mentoring Children With an Incarcerated Parent

As a board member for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Broward County—and a former Big Brother—I recognize the substantial impact of mentoring on the young people in our community.

By Allen Randall Haas

4 minute read

August 09, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

AI in Workers' Compensation: Are We There Yet?

Workers' compensation is a field of law that is particularly suited to the application of artificial intelligence, especially in the processing and analyzing of data.

By Michael McMaster

4 minute read

August 09, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

Thought Leadership: An Underutilized Tool in an Impactful Business Development Strategy

With all the benefits of thought leadership, why aren't more attorneys leaning into writing or speaking as a business development and branding tool?

By Shannon Duffy Lombardo

6 minute read

August 09, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

Is It Time for Mandatory Cameras in Family Court?

Would implementation of audiovisual recordings in child custody evaluations serve as valuable precedent, demonstrating that increased transparency can coexist with professional integrity in family law matters? There's lots to think about.

By Elisa Reiter and Daniel Pollack

10 minute read

August 09, 2024 | Daily Business Review

US Supreme Court Provides Strong Incentive to Reconsider Impact Fees

The recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Sheetz v. County of El Dorado has empowered developers and property owners to challenge excessive or unjustified impact fees as unconstitutional and potentially seek damages and attorney fees. This in turn will cause many local governments to revisit the defensibility of their impact fee regimes.

By Mark Grafton

3 minute read

August 08, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

Resolving Litigation: L&E Lawyer Inadvertently Trained by Parents

My guest this month, Gene Ryu of K&L Gates, started his career advising businesses on labor and employment issues long before he went to law school—or college, high school or middle school. I'll let him explain it below, but his background set him up perfectly to represent an employer with empathy for their employee.

By Rich Lee

7 minute read

August 08, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

Impact of Blockchain on Data Preservation and Discovery

As businesses across various industries increasingly adopt blockchain, it will become a critical source of discoverable electronically stored information (ESI). The potential benefits of blockchain for e-discovery and data preservation are substantial, making it an area of growing interest and importance.

By Kelly A. Lavelle

6 minute read

August 07, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

Using Generative AI: As the ABA Says, There's a Rule (or Two!) for That!

Formal Opinion 512 does an excellent job of analyzing the rules that are implicated by the use of generative AI.

By Ellen C. Brotman

8 minute read

August 07, 2024 | New York Law Journal

Is Courthouse Sacrosanctity a Thing of Yesteryear?

There was a time that a draft decision of a court remained securely under wraps until the decision was final and intended for public release. And it used to also be that the oral or written communications among judges on a court likewise would remain "in the vault."

By Joel Cohen and Bonnie M. Baker

7 minute read

August 06, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

Where Have We Gone?: The US Supreme Court and the President

What course of action exists to address the actions of an executive who fails to follow our laws and employs "intrigues of ambitions," which aspire to tyranny and threaten the existence of government in the name of democracy?

By Larry E. Coben

7 minute read