Kristie Rearick

January 16, 2018 | The Legal Intelligencer

It's shaping up to be yet another eventful year for immigration in 2018. As we have seen over the last year, the current presidential administration is working tirelessly to discourage legal immigration, as well as increase enforcement actions against undocumented immigrants.

By Michele Madera

8 minute read

January 16, 2018 | Daily Business Review

Florida's construction lien law demands strict adherence by contractors in legal disputes with their customers. A recent ruling by the Fourth District Court of Appeal adds yet another example to a number of similar rulings against lienors who failed to follow the statutorily required mandates in the pursuit of their claim.

By Nicholas D. Siegfried

4 minute read

January 16, 2018 | Daily Business Review

Every trial lawyer brings his or her own unique life experience and perspective to the trial practice. Much of my perspective and my practice in the courtroom have been forged in the world of the martial arts.

By Michael Ehrenstein

4 minute read

January 15, 2018 | The Legal Intelligencer

In the traditional model of dispute resolution through litigation, a win is easy to define. Most times, there is a winner and a loser identified by who prevailed, on which claims, and what monetary compensation was awarded. Indeed, with the exception of limited equitable remedies available for a small subset of certain claims, this is the predetermined, limited outcome of the litigation process. It is black and white by design.

By Michael W. Winfield

7 minute read

January 15, 2018 | The Legal Intelligencer

Social and news media bombard us daily with accounts of sexual harassment and misconduct by captains of industry, the arts and politics. The accounts and identities of these formerly admired men continue to shock the public with no end in sight.

By Stephanie H. Klein

8 minute read

January 15, 2018 | The Legal Intelligencer

At its core, international arbitration is governed by a combination of common and civil law norms that have evolved over time. Thus, unsurprisingly, international arbitration practice differs in many ways from what an attorney might encounter during court proceedings or domestic arbitrations in the United States.

By Albert Bates Jr. and R. Zachary Torres-Fowler

8 minute read

January 15, 2018 | The Legal Intelligencer

The longer cases are litigated, the more they cost. Particularly for corporate parties, this means more internal time is lost, and more dollars may need to be held in reserve over long periods which could be more productively applied elsewhere. Thus, it is no surprise that many companies who regularly litigate closely track the time cases are open as one yardstick to measure the performance of outside counsel.

By William P. Shelley

9 minute read

January 15, 2018 | The Legal Intelligencer

In the past year, each of us performed a damages allocation arising from a horrific accident—the May 2015 derailment of Amtrak Train 188 in Philadelphia, a crash that killed eight and seriously injured 200 people, and the June 2013 collapse of the Salvation Army Thrift Store in Center City, which killed seven and severely injured 12.

By Diane Welsh and Jerry Roscoe

9 minute read

January 15, 2018 | The Legal Intelligencer

With today's technology, there are many inexpensive, yet powerful tools that can be used to present your case in a mediation setting.

By Howard J. Schulberg

8 minute read

January 15, 2018 | The Legal Intelligencer

Where guided choice mediation is utilized, the parties agree on the selection of a mediator whose role it is to assist them, in the early stages of a dispute, in achieving a timely resolution of that dispute.

By Robert A. Korn

7 minute read