The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Sarah C. Yerger | November 14, 2017
relevance and power since the 1980s—a decline made more precipitous by right-to-work (RTW) legislation and laws throughout various states—28 at last count.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By James F. Glunt | November 14, 2017
The reasons for the gender pay gap in the United States, and globally, are varied and complex.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Nina K. Markey | November 14, 2017
Employers increasingly rely on independent contractors, "temps" and other nontraditional workers to solve their business needs. These nontraditional work…
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Diana A. Silva | November 13, 2017
The federal Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), better known as Superfund, provides private parties with two types of claims to recover costs associated with investigating and remediating contaminated sites—a cost recovery claim under CERCLA Section 107(a), 42 U.S.C. Section 9607(a), and a contribution claim under Section 113(f), 42 U.S.C. Section 9613(f). A party can have either a CERCLA Section 107 cost recovery claim, or a Section 113 contribution claim, but not both, as each section of CERCLA provides mutually exclusive remedies.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Michael H. Reed, Richard W. Foltz, Jr. and Joseph J. Serritella | November 13, 2017
Philadelphia unveils statue of Octavius V. Catto—the city's first public monument to an individual African-American.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Angela D. Giampolo | November 13, 2017
Earlier this summer in Matal v. Tam (formerly Lee v. Tam), the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) struck down the restriction on the registration of marks that “disparage” under Section 2(a) of the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. Section 1052(a).
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Edward T. Kang | November 9, 2017
Limited partnerships offer an attractive option over the general partnership form–namely, the benefits of a partnership arrangement, but with limited liability like that enjoyed by the owners of a corporation or limited liability company.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Susan Nanes | November 9, 2017
There's no cliché better than a Shakespeare cliché, and no Shakespeare cliché more cliché than referencing Hamlet. Duly noted and ignored. Let's turn to Uber, the Prince of 555 Market St. in San Francisco.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By David J. Carney | November 9, 2017
In December 2016, I wrote an article in The Legal Intelligencer to explain the unique, and often times, crippling statute of limitations provisions set forth by the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Samuel C. Stretton | November 9, 2017
A previous article by this writer suggested that it would not be unethical to file a complaint even though the lawyer knew the statute of limitations had passed because in Pennsylvania, the statute of limitations must be raised as an affirmative defense.
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