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June 03, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

Former CHOP GC Charged With Mail Fraud, Money Laundering

Roosevelt Hairston Jr., the former general counsel for Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, was charged Thursday with one count each of mail fraud, money laundering and filing a false tax return
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January 23, 2012 | New York Law Journal

Can Court Add Language to Contract to Correct Attorney's Error?

In his Contract Law feature, Fulbright & Jaworski partner Glen Banks asks readers to weigh in on an issue the Court of Appeals will soon decide: When a claim for reformation is absent, can a court addressing a breach of contract claim can add language to an unambiguous, enforceable agreement to correct erroneous drafting by counsel?
11 minute read
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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