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The Legal Intelligencer

Working to Protect Evicted Domestic Abuse Victims

The National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty (the center) estimated that domestic violence victims evicted because of the abuse they suffer make up more than 11 percent of all evictions. Property owners evict domestic violence victims for a range of abuse-related factors, including because the police came to the property, the person obtained a protection from abuse order, or because of crimes the abuser committed.
7 minute read

Daily Business Review

Quartet of Momentous Labor Board Decisions Spells New Day for Employers Everywhere

Over a 24-hour period in mid-December, the National Labor Relations Board turned back the clock by issuing four momentous decisions that will impact workplace law for years to come. By casting away controversial rulings from the Obama-era board, the newly constituted NLRB returned to reasonable standards that had existed for decades.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Cannabusiness 101—Sessions Takes Aim at Legalized Marijuana Industry

Is U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions threatening to single-handedly crush the $7.2 billion legalized marijuana industry spanning 30 states, generating millions in taxes and providing tens of thousands of jobs?
7 minute read

Daily Report Online

How One Law Firm Planned for Growth

“We don't want our lawyers to think of themselves as belonging to a particular office but to view themselves as being in the employment law section, for example, and happening to work in the Los Angeles office.”
5 minute read

Litigation Daily

Litigator of the Week: This One's For You, Vince

"To the extent we won this case, it's really not my victory. It's much more a victory for Vince [DiBlasi], and all the other partners at the firm that were trained by Vince.”
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The Legal Intelligencer

Pennsylvania Court Imposes Increased Overtime Regulations

In a recent decision, the Pennsylvania Superior Court complicated the already tricky business of paying nonexempt employees on an hourly basis for Pennsylvania employers. In Chevalier v. Hiller, the court found that a “fluctuating workweek” overtime calculation method, approved by federal regulation, violates Pennsylvania's Minimum Wage Act, 43 P.S. Section 333.101 et seq. (PMWA).
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Lansdale Reborn—A Model for Local Redevelopment

Drive through Lansdale Borough and it's hard not to notice the construction projects reshaping the formerly sleepy little community. Lansdale, a densely populated, three-square mile borough in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, located 28 miles northwest of Philadelphia, and bisected by a rail line, has quickly become a hotbed for redevelopment and public-private partnership projects.
7 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Support Yale Law Volunteers Advocating for Asylum Seekers

In the spring of 2016 four Yale law students founded an organization to respond to the unmet legal needs of Central American refugee families fleeing…
2 minute read

Litigation Daily

Daily Dicta: Boies Schiller and the 'Loud, Slut-Shaming Bells'

When ex-lovers fight over assets, it's often messy and ugly and mean. But in a pending California case, opposing counsel is accusing lawyers from Boies Schiller Flexner of going too far, with “loud, slut-shaming bells that cannot be unrung.”
7 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

'Protz' and the Implications of Its Retroactive Application

“AMA's Approach to Impairment Rating Evaluations is Unconstitutional”—an article written by Samuel H. Pond and Andrew F. Ruder of Pond Lehocky Stern Giordano, published in The Legal Intelligencer on April 23, 2013. The title speaks for itself, but contained therein was an explanation that while the Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation Act (act) does not place limitations on the length of time an injured worker can receive ongoing wage loss benefits, it did establish an impairment rating system for individuals who had been receiving total disability benefits for a period of two years.
9 minute read

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