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Daily Business Review

After Irma: Is Your Business Entitled to Insurance Coverage for Additional Lost Profits?

The stoplights have been repaired and the debris has been cleared, but many local businesses are still feeling the effects of Hurricane Irma, especially in the hospitality industry, due to continued rebuilding efforts, the public perception that South Florida is not ready for visitors again and the loss of other tourist attractions that draw visitors to South Florida.
4 minute read

The Recorder

Proposition 65 After 40 Years: Public Benefit or Enrichment for a Few?

Although the law has helped reduce the amount of harmful chemicals in some consumer products, in most cases there has been no meaningful benefit. At the same time it has generated a cottage industry of citizen plaintiffs and attorneys.
7 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Recent Developments in Pennsylvania Real Estate Law

Pennsylvania appellate courts have recently handed down several important decisions in the realm of real estate law that provide context for future cases.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Taking on Matrimonial Cases Becomes Easier With This Handbook

New York Matrimonial Trial Handbook is the ideal learning foundation for your associate, new to the matrimonial field, as well as a valuable tool for the experienced practitioner who wants to review the law and prepare for trial.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

New Policy Affects How Public Records Are Accessed, Submitted to Court

With the New Year will come a significant change to how documents are submitted and retrieved in the Pennsylvania courts. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has adopted a new public access policy that establishes uniform standards for all trial and appellate courts in Pennsylvania.
6 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Considering the Rights of a Misidentified Surrogate Child

How should the law decide a case in which a surrogate mother has given birth to two children, only one of whom was the product of in vitro fertilization by the contractual donor?
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Education Law Center Complaint Illustrates Why Complacency Is a Foe of Justice

One of the greatest threats to equality is complacency. Those who do nothing while witnessing injustice and wrongdoing, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, do worse than those who commit acts of injustice.
6 minute read

Daily Business Review

Patients Have an Absolute Right to Know: Another Win for Patients in Med Mal Claims

In the recent past, doctors and other medical providers here in Florida were heavily protected from negligence actions, which included limitations on certain documents which were “discoverable” and on noneconomic damages (pain and suffering, disfigurement, permanent disability, etc.).
3 minute read

Litigation Daily

Daily Dicta: Meet the Star Litigator Who Just Became Chairman of McGuireWoods

A Q&A with litigator Jon Harmon, the new chairman of 1,100-lawyer McGuireWoods, plus Sheppard Mullin scores in an unfair competition trial.
9 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Bankruptcy Court Authorizes Rejection of Employment Separation Agreements

The Bankruptcy Code can be an effective tool for reducing liabilities and enhancing asset value for the benefit of creditors. One of the more important tools is the right to not only assume favorable contracts pursuant to Section 365, but also to reject those which are not.
7 minute read

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