Litigation

Legal Times

Considering Arbitration's Costs and Dangers

By Brian H. Corcoran and Mandie Landry | August 24, 2007

When they are negotiating the terms of commercial contracts, companies frequently assume that inclusion of an arbitration clause is a no-brainer. After all, what business wants to invite costly, ti

The Legal Intelligencer

Suit Against Infants' Tylenol Gets $5 Million Verdict

By Gina Passarella | August 7, 2006

A wrongful death action filed by the family of a dead 1-year-old against the makers of Infants' Tylenol resulted in a $5 million verdict from a Philadelphia jury last month. A. Roy DeCaro an

National Law Journal

The Seven-Hour Deposition Myth

By Jerold S. Solovy and Robert L. Byman | November 3, 2006

Having invoked the Pirate Code's Right of Parlay -- guarantying safe passage -- our heroine is greatly surprised when Captain Barbossa says she cannot leave the ship: "The code is more what you'd c

Injured Worker Left With No Penalty Payments

By Jennifer Batchelor | September 21, 2006

A majority of the en banc Commonwealth Court left certain workers' compensation claimants a bit nowhere when it held that neither the Workers' Compensation Security Fund, nor an employer whose insu

National Law Journal

SOX Whistleblower Claims and Private Companies

By John B. Gamble Jr. | April 6, 2006

Any lawyer who is looked upon within his or her firm or in-house legal department as the resident Sarbanes-Oxley Act expert has likely encountered questions about the applicability of the act to pr

Corporate Counsel

DOJ Kicks Back at Kickbacks Under Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

By Joshua Lipton | November 21, 2006

Don't try to tell Mark Mendelsohn that bribery is just another cost of doing business overseas, because he won't buy it. Mendelsohn is the point man at the U.S. Department of Justice for enforc

Coping With the New Rules for Discovery of Electronic Data

By Jennifer Smith Finnegan and Aviva Wein | November 16, 2006

On Dec. 1, new amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure addressing discovery of electronically stored information will take effect unless Congress enacts legislation to reject, modify or

The Associated Press

Merck Says It's in Vioxx Fight for Long Haul

By Linda A. Johnson | September 12, 2005

On the eve of the second trial over its painkiller Vioxx, drug giant Merck & Co. on Friday reasserted that it plans to aggressively fight the mounting lawsuits over the withdrawn drug, despite

Insider Trading Returns

By David B. Bayless | December 11, 2007

As the government's fiscal year drew to a close at the end of last September, the Securities and Exchange Commission stepped up its enforcement efforts in the area of insider trading. As Commission

The Legal Intelligencer

Ogletree Deakins Makes Move Into Philadelphia With Acquisition of Small Firm

By Gina Passarella | December 27, 2006

A major labor and employment firm had the City of Brotherly Love on its list of target markets for a new office.Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart, which has nearly 350 attorneys, can