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The Legal Intelligencer

Through the Language Barrier: Examining a Witness Through Interpreters

The jury was thoroughly confused when a witness testified through an interpreter that he paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for a ladder in a construction case I tried a few years ago.
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The Legal Intelligencer

Questions and Answers on Professional Responsibility

Payment to witnesses who are not experts is very limited and governed to a large extent by the Rules of Professional Conduct. Under Pennsylvania Rules of Professional Conduct, Rule 3.4(b), a lawyer cannot pay or offer payment to a witness contingent upon the content of the witness' testimony or the outcome of the case.
7 minute read

New York Law Journal

Lawyers and a New York Constitutional Convention

Lawyers should be urging their friends and families to the polls this November if only to vote in favor of a New York Constitutional Convention, an opportunity that will not be available again until 2037.
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

Smoothing the Way From Classroom to Courtroom

What has become painfully obvious is that being a successful and effective lawyer requires lots more than mere intellectual capital and that we cannot reasonably expect law schools to teach students how to fill the role of irreplaceable advisors and to become meaningfully engaged in their communities.
10 minute read

Litigation Daily

The Posner Effect (With Help From Kirkland & Ellis)

When Judge Richard Posner in September abruptly retired from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, he leveled pointed criticism at his colleagues on the bench for failing to do enough to help pro se litigants. On Tuesday, his fellow Seventh Circuit judges offered something of a response.
7 minute read

Susskind's Job Interview Advice for Law Students Misses Mark, Career Pros Say

In Richard Susskind's second edition of “Tomorrow's Lawyers,” he urges law students and recent graduates interviewing with law firms to ask hiring partners and firm leaders pointed questions about their firms' futures, including inquiries about long-term strategy and how they've integrated technology into their businesses. There's no argument that those details are important information for private practice lawyers.
12 minute read

Delaware Business Court Insider

The Virtue of Predictability: Delaware's Place in M&A Practice

As has been widely reported, for the first time in 15 years, Delaware has been dethroned as the nation's top court system according to a recent survey, which sought to explore “how fair and reasonable the states' liability systems are perceived to be by U.S. businesses.”
15 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Locking It Down and Keeping Watch: A 2017 Corporate and Law Firm Protection Guide

Anyone aware of current business news cannot avoid the flood of high visibility hacking and IP intrusion/theft. The issues have grown so ubiquitous that it isn't shocking to hear U.S. companies and government agencies suffered a record 1,093 data breaches in 2016 alone, a 40-percent increase from 2015.
16 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

'Paralegals Soar to Great Heights' at Annual Education Conference

The Philadelphia Association of Paralegals' (PAP) annual education conference was held on Friday, Sept. 29, at The Pennsylvania Bar Institute with a luncheon at The Crystal Tea Room, both located in The Wanamaker Building in Philadelphia.
7 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Striking the Right Balance With Your Newfound Authority

As a grade “K-JD,” or someone who completed all schooling, from finger-painting to issue-spotting, with no gaps in between, graduating law school and entering the “real world” required many adjustments.
12 minute read

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