The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Rich Lee | January 2, 2024
Mediation starts the moment everybody signs the confidentiality agreement and can go on for months. If there's no settlement, it's just suspended. There's no failure because mediation can always start again. I stress that with parties and lawyers. We can always come back.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Craig R. Tractenberg | December 21, 2023
Commercial arbitration is increasing in frequency and value. Recent cases have addressed two emerging issues. The first is whether a nonsignatory to an arbitration clause can compel or avoid arbitration. The second, more novel issue, is whether a nonsignatory can compel another nonsignatory to arbitration.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Sean Saari | December 20, 2023
Employ a jointly retained valuation expert. This underused approach can pivotally shift disputes, especially where emotional entanglement clouds judgment, as in divorce or business ownership conflicts.
By Victoria Pfefferle-Gillot | December 14, 2023
McNees Wallace & Nurick announced that energy attorney Charis Mincavage is the firm's newest member, effective Jan. 1, 2024.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Abraham J. Gafni | December 11, 2023
What happens when a company purchases all the assets and liabilities of its predecessor? Does it thereby acquire the right to enforce a mandatory arbitration agreement the predecessor had with its employees?
By Colleen Murphy | December 7, 2023
"MicroBilt's arbitration provision, including the AAA rules that it incorporates, does not condition [the plaintiff's] return to court on the AAA's decision being correct, or even reasonable. That is the deal the parties struck," the court ruled.
By Victoria Pfefferle-Gillot | December 5, 2023
McNees Wallace & Nurick fiduciary litigator Kendra D. McGuire was appointed chair of the Pennsylvania Orphans' Court rules committee, effective Jan. 1, 2024.
By Charlotte Johnstone | November 27, 2023
The exits follow the Paris office's shift towards life sciences, tech, private assets and private capital, as arbitration teams across the industry continue to be conflicted out of lucrative cases.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Charles F. Forer | November 13, 2023
Bob is retiring. He has spent the last few days taking down diplomas from office walls; sending files to storage; and thinking about his mistakes, which I have been detailing for more than 20 years. Even Bob has to look at the tea leaves. How many more mistakes would he make? How could his malpractice carrier keep accommodating him?
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Amanda O'Brien | October 18, 2023
The Philadelphia labor and employment firm will pay as much as $800,000 to a class of clients impacted by a May 2021 data breach as well as $266,666 in attorney fees.
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