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The Legal Intelligencer

Lifetime Achievement, Attorney of the Year and Lawyers on the Fast Track Nominations Sought

Each year, The Legal Intelligencer's Professional Excellence Awards honor Pennsylvania law firms and attorneys who have made a significant, positive impact on the legal profession. And this year, as always, we need your help.
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The Legal Intelligencer

Alternative Dispute Resolution

In the Legal's Alternative Dispute Resolution supplement, read about guided-choice mediation, the use of technology in mediation and gaining a winning perspective.
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The Legal Intelligencer

Gaining a Winning Perspective in Mediation: It's All About the Frame

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.
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The Legal Intelligencer

A Modest Proposal to Mitigate Sexual Harassment and Misconduct in the Workplace

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.
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The Legal Intelligencer

Allocation: Empathy, Efficiency and Justice for the Victims

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.
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The Legal Intelligencer

The Use of Technology in Mediation: Inexpensive Tools to Present Your Case

With today's technology, there are many inexpensive, yet powerful tools that can be used to present your case in a mediation setting.
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The Legal Intelligencer

Guided Choice Mediation: An Approach to Controlling the High Cost of Arbitration and Litigation

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.
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The Legal Intelligencer

An E-Discovery Opinion That's Boring: Have We Come That Far? Part I

In Winfield v. New York, 15-CV-05236 (S.D.N.Y. Nov. 27, 2017), Magistrate Judge Katharine H. Parker ruled on the plaintiffs' claims that the defendant did not properly produce e-discovery. The opinion is, paradoxically, interesting because it is boring.
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The Legal Intelligencer

PaLaw 2017: Annual Report on the Legal Profession

Welcome to the 24th edition of PaLaw: Annual Report on the Legal Profession.
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The Legal Intelligencer

Has Understanding Intersecting Legal Disciplines Become a Basic Requirement of Competency?

In the legal profession we are tasked with being intimately familiar with the ways that different areas of law interact with each other. The mastering of interdisciplinary practices is an essential element in providing effective representation to our clients.
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