The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Michele Madera | January 16, 2018
It's shaping up to be yet another eventful year for immigration in 2018. As we have seen over the last year, the current presidential administration is working tirelessly to discourage legal immigration, as well as increase enforcement actions against undocumented immigrants.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Michael W. Winfield | January 15, 2018
In the traditional model of dispute resolution through litigation, a win is easy to define. Most times, there is a winner and a loser identified by who prevailed, on which claims, and what monetary compensation was awarded. Indeed, with the exception of limited equitable remedies available for a small subset of certain claims, this is the predetermined, limited outcome of the litigation process. It is black and white by design.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Stephanie H. Klein | January 15, 2018
Social and news media bombard us daily with accounts of sexual harassment and misconduct by captains of industry, the arts and politics. The accounts and identities of these formerly admired men continue to shock the public with no end in sight.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Diane Welsh and Jerry Roscoe | January 15, 2018
In the past year, each of us performed a damages allocation arising from a horrific accident—the May 2015 derailment of Amtrak Train 188 in Philadelphia, a crash that killed eight and seriously injured 200 people, and the June 2013 collapse of the Salvation Army Thrift Store in Center City, which killed seven and severely injured 12.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Howard J. Schulberg | January 15, 2018
With today's technology, there are many inexpensive, yet powerful tools that can be used to present your case in a mediation setting.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Robert A. Korn | January 15, 2018
Where guided choice mediation is utilized, the parties agree on the selection of a mediator whose role it is to assist them, in the early stages of a dispute, in achieving a timely resolution of that dispute.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Peter F. Vaira | January 12, 2018
I submit to you, as I do every year, what I would like to see occur in the courts, the government investigative agencies, and the law profession in the coming year.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Joel D. Feldman and Cateylyn McDonough | January 12, 2018
The "textalyzer" is a device being developed for law enforcement to determine driver smartphone use at the time of, or just before, a crash. It is named after the breathalyzer, which provides police with a reasonably reliable way to make a roadside determination of whether a driver had consumed alcohol and an estimation of blood alcohol level.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Carol F. McCabe and Claudia V. Colón | January 11, 2018
President Donald Trump took office last January with a keen focus on minimizing regulatory burdens imposed by the Environmental Protection Agency. In the first months of his presidency, Trump took aim at many Obama-era regulations, issuing a spate of executive orders promoting deregulation, reduced regulatory costs, energy independence, expedited environmental reviews for infrastructure projects and economic growth.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Lynne Z. Gold-Bikin | January 11, 2018
Domestic violence became a part of Pennsylvania law on Dec. 6, 1976. It was difficult to accept the fact that ongoing and accepted behavior between spouses in long-term marriages that had gone on for decades was now a civil tort.
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