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Musical Scales of Justice Swing in Britney's Favor
Pop songstress Britney Spears last week won a decisive court victory when a federal judge tossed out a copyright infringement suit brought by two Pennsylvania men who claimed that the melody of Spears' song What U See Is What U Get infringed their song titled What You See Is What You Get.Worst Legal Market in America?
Philadelphia lawyers received a rude awakening Monday. They practice in "the worst legal market in America," according to a column printed in The Deal. Reporter David Marcus surmises that Philadelphia is hindered by being situated between Washington and New York and by not having any native investment banks of any size or many indigenous commercial banks upon which they can depend for referrals. What do local lawyers and consultants have to say about that conclusion?Malpractice Insurance To Cost 40 Percent MoreFor Most Attorneys
Of the Legal StaffChirls Brings Beaser and Reich Back Into the Fold
Veterans of the Philadelphia Bar Association present at Thursday's Board of Governors meeting heard a familiar voice softly chiming in from the upper left-hand corner of the conference table.How They'll Hire and Whom They'll Serve
As firms climb out of the morass that is today's economy, the type of work they do will largely remain unchanged, but the people doing the work and the clients they serve could be quite different.Pennsylvania Litigation Departments of the Year
The results are in! Presenting The Legal Intelligencer's Litigation Departments of the Year for 2012.Rebutting the Fraud-on-the-Market Presumption of Reliance
Thanks to two recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions, Amgen v. Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds, 133 S. Ct. 1184 (2013), and Erica P. John Fund v. Halliburton, 131 S. Ct. 2179 (2011), plaintiffs in securities fraud class actions brought under Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Rule 10b-5 do not need to prove two of the essential elements of their claim, loss causation and materiality, at the class certification stage.'Pari Delicto' Defense Stops Suit
An unsecured creditors committee charged with pursuing claims for a pair of debtor companies could not maintain its action against a securities underwriter that helped deepen the companies' insolvency, the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals ruled. The court noted that the committee was acting for the debtors, and because the debtors' management was equally at fault, the committee was barred from its pursuit of the underwriter.Trending Stories
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