By Jason Grant | July 14, 2021
The decision by the Appellate Division, First Department court "clarifies" for practitioners an issue that it said the state's high court has "not opined on": Whether in sending email with settlement terms to opposing counsel, attorneys must retype in their own name, above or below their already listed computer-prepopulated signature box, for the agreement to be binding.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Jane Wester | July 13, 2021
The Child Victims Act in 2019 opened a one-year window for survivors of child sex abuse to file civil suits against their abusers or related institutions, even if the claim would otherwise be barred by statutes of limitation. Amid the pandemic, the window was extended, and it is now set to end Aug. 14.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By P.J. D'Annunzio | July 13, 2021
Lawyer Michael van der Veen, who represented former President Donald Trump at his second impeachment trial, said in a recent court filing that he had legal grounds to sue Philadelphia attorney Theodore Schwartz for an allegedly defamatory article Schwartz wrote about van der Veen's involvement with the Trump case.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Howard J. Bashman | July 13, 2021
During its just-concluded term, the Supreme Court decided six cases on direct review from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, affirming our local federal appellate court two times and reversing or vacating it four times.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Peter Vaira | July 12, 2021
Chief Justice Max Baer noted the court's need to continue the reform of the Grand Jury process that was interrupted by the pandemic. He said, "We are presently reenergizing our reform efforts, and you shall see some activity in the near future."
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Alice K. Jump | July 12, 2021
Governor Andrew Cuomo's executive orders, commencing at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, effectively froze statutory and court imposed deadlines for all manner of legal proceedings. For civil proceedings, at least, that stoppage lasted through Nov. 3, 2020. In the months since, a few courts have had a chance to interpret the orders and address some of their inherent ambiguities.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Harvey M. Stone and Richard H. Dolan | July 8, 2021
In this edition of their Eastern District Roundup, Harvey M. Stone and Richard H. Dolan report on several significant decisions handed down recently: one setting forth the reasons for a two-year sentence of incarceration in a tax case; another granting plaintiffs' motion to serve a preliminary injunction on a Taiwan-based company by email; and the last deciding related cases concerning defendant's motion to transfer a matter to a multidistrict litigation.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Edward T. Kang and Ryan T. Kirk | July 8, 2021
The sheer proliferation of data and associated complexity has necessitated the development of specialized software to manage and catalog this information. Data have become so complex that protocols surrounding metadata, i.e., data about data, have become a regular aspect of the discovery process.
Daily Business Review | Commentary
By Charles M. Tatelbaum and Christina V. Paradowski | July 8, 2021
The so-called Barton doctrine has since been expanded to also include bankruptcy trustees and other fiduciaries, but a recent ruling by the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has dramatically curtailed its lifespan.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By P.J. D'Annunzio | July 7, 2021
An en banc Superior Court panel consisting of President Judge Jack Panella and Judges Victor Stabile, Alice Beck Dubow, Deborah Kunselman, Carolyn Nichols, Mary Murray, Maria McLaughlin, Megan McCarthy King and Daniel McCaffrey quashed the appeal of Erie Insurance Exchange, which had objected to producing what it claimed were privilege documents for in camera review in an insurance dispute.
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