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August 02, 2013 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Education Law: Enterprise Risk Management For Educational Institutions

One of the most important issues currently being addressed by educational institutions is that of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM), a process that allows an institution to mitigate from an array of potential risks.
5 minute read
August 10, 2004 | Law.com

Wal-Mart Suit Will Test Alliance of Public and Private Firms

The Wal-Mart sex discrimination case has drawn serious attention for its size, and rightly so. Some 1.6 million women are confronting the retail colossus in what's billed as the largest civil rights class action ever certified. But the class is also noteworthy for its representation: three nonprofit groups and four plaintiffs firms, headed up by a public interest lawyer. Theoretically overmatched, the plaintiffs team has done well so far, and can boast of a state-of-the-art strategy.
6 minute read
July 18, 2011 | National Law Journal

ABA again confronts the diversity dilemma

The organization is trying to reconcile the legal profession's need for greater diversity with its desire to push law schools to better prepare students to pass the bar. For the second time in four years, it is considering raising the minimum bar-passage-rate requirement as part of a comprehensive review of law school accreditation standards.
8 minute read
April 20, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

SEPTA Can't Challenge PPL Exercise of Eminent Domain

SEPTA was too hasty in making a claim that PPL Electric Utilities Corp. improperly exercised eminent domain to take land owned by the regional transportation agency for a new power line, the Commonwealth Court has ruled.
4 minute read
July 24, 2013 | Daily Report Online

What Employers Need To Know About Heat-Related Illness

With record heat hitting large swaths of the U.S. this summer, we're revisiting an earlier CorpCounsel.com article about the law surrounding heat-related illness and injury in the workplace.
5 minute read
October 27, 2010 | New York Law Journal

Regulations Offer Relief For Troubled Partnerships

Ezra Dyckman, a member of Roberts & Holland, and Lana Kalickstein, an associate with the firm, write that last year, in an attempt to provide relief to the growing number of taxpayers struggling to repay loans, Congress voted to allow the deferral of cancellation of indebtedness income generated in 2009 or 2010 in connection with certain debt transactions.
8 minute read
September 21, 2008 | The Legal Intelligencer

Sen. Stevens seeks faith of voters as trial looms

WASHINGTON (AP) _ Since before statehood, Ted Stevens has believed in Alaska.
5 minute read
March 24, 2010 | New Jersey Law Journal

Medical Malpractice Defendants Can't Use Experts Tied to Plaintiff's Doctors

A hospital and its doctors sued for malpractice can't summon expert testimony from members of a medical group that includes the plaintiff's treating physician, a New Jersey appeals court says in a case of first impression.
4 minute read
September 10, 2008 | The Legal Intelligencer

Overseas Practices Keeping British Law Firms Afloat

In the face of sliding credit markets and fewer corporate deals, England's top firms still saw revenue growth in the first quarter of 2008, according to a report released Sept. 1 by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu.
3 minute read
October 25, 2010 | National Law Journal

Hot Commodity

Hordes of big-firm lawyers and their clients have been beating a path to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, all eager to influence the tiny agency as it tackles a breathtaking array of new rules, including the first ever regulation of the $615 trillion market for over-the-counter derivatives.
10 minute read

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