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Multistate Licensure Compact for Social Work

The compact will establish a single license allowing social workers with a college degree or clinical license to serve patients across state lines (within each compact state), including through telehealth platforms. This single license requirement is anticipated to promote greater flexibility and access for both social workers and the patients they serve.
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Special Section: 2024 Medical Malpractice

In The Legal's Medical Malpractice special section, read about how to mitigate risks in the emergency room, the stigma of medical malpractice cases that stem from suicide, and the role appellate mediators can have in an era of nuclear verdicts.
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Case Dismissed for False Start: Lessons on Drafting and Strategy

In the case of Waldron v. SVHB Marketing, franchisees' RICO case was dismissed on summary judgment for failure to exhaust the mediation prerequisite to filing a lawsuit against the franchisor and its personnel.
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Med Mal Cases Arising From Suicide: Dispensing the Myths and Removing the Stigma

When a potential client comes to you with a wrongful death medical malpractice case arising from suicide, we encourage you to dispense the myths and remove the stigma, and to evaluate the case with the same analysis as any other medical malpractice case.
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Jury Instruction Dilemma: SSJI 14.90's Conflict With Shifting Pennsylvania Law

What happens when the law changes and the standard charge is wrong? Since 2021, Pennsylvania Suggested Standard Civil Jury Instruction Number 14.90 "Informed Consent-Nondisclosure" has been in direct conflict with Pennsylvania law.
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The Role of Appellate Mediation in an Era of Thermonuclear Verdicts and Continuing Challenges to Settled Precedent

With the value of stare decisis now open to question, and the potential of significant personal injury matters now unpredictable at best, the value of informed decision-making facilitated by experienced appellate mediators has become increasingly self-evident. It is an alternative to the expense, duration and uncertainty of appellate decisions well worth consideration.
8 minute read

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Even With the Local Roundup Verdict, Punitive Damages Still Aren't Packing a Punch

I have written in the past about the failure of punitive damages to have the deterrent effect they were designed to have. Rather than deter intentional harm or egregious behavior, the threat punitive damages pose is seemingly ignored by corporations and employers who put profits before preventing harm, thanks in part to awards frequently being reduced on appeal.
9 minute read

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New Proposed Succession Planning Rule Hits Target but Misses the Bullseye

Pennsylvania's newly proposed Rule of Professional Conduct 1.20 makes succession planning mandatory. It is a very good start, but hopefully, after public comment, the Disciplinary Board will revise and improve it.
8 minute read

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UFC Fighters Battle for Fair Compensation

The clash centers around the UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship), the premier organization in MMA, and its fighters, who allege they have been shortchanged in terms of pay and benefits.
6 minute read

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10 Steps for Success in Representing a Victim of Childhood Sex Abuse

Representing minors in childhood sexual abuse (CSA) cases comes with great reward but great evidentiary and emotional challenges. With new and fortunately favorable laws emerging around the country to benefit child victims, now is the time to think about the intricacies of representing minor clients.
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