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The Legal Intelligencer

DEI Legal Pipelining: Understanding the Phrase 'If You Can See It, You Can Be It'

Early and ongoing exposure to the legal profession is important given that attorneys often hold positions of influence in education, justice, legislation, business, regulations and global trade. The path begins early and starts with basic needs—particularly important in communities such as ours, where resources are lacking on so many levels: employment, housing, food security, and markedly personal safety.
8 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

A Push for More Progress: Increased Diversity in the Legal Profession

While diversity within the legal profession has improved over the last few years, progress has been slow, and law firm leadership must be further educated on the importance of diversity and inclusion so they will take greater steps toward enhancing diversity among leadership and increasing transparency of their firm's diversity, equity and inclusion practices.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

One Firm's Journey Toward Equity Continues: Expanding Pathways and Removing Barriers

We have long known that embracing diversity, equity, and inclusion is the right thing to do for our firm, our profession, and our communities. By learning from our experience and applying our insight, we are making our journey toward equity—deliberately, thoughtfully, and intentionally.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Bridging the Generational Gap of the Modern Legal Workplace

As the legal landscape continues to change shape and find its footing among its corporate counterparts, it's essential that those of us in this environment work to remain competitive while expanding our identity to become more inclusive.
8 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Addressing Workers' Compensation Issues for the Remote Workforce

A critical aspect of maintaining employee well-being and ensuring legal compliance has become managing workers' compensation issues that arise out of an increasingly remote workforce.
8 minute read

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Virtual or In Person—Where Do We Go From Here?

The majority of workers' compensation hearings and depositions are still being conducted virtually. This has posed the question of whether the practice of workers' compensation will ever return to how it was pre-pandemic.
11 minute read

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The Pa. Supreme Court Affirms Doctrine of Workers' Compensation Exclusivity

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court recently issued a significant decision enforcing the Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation Act's exclusivity provision.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Workers' Comp Death Benefits in Del. and How Lawyers Receive Attorney Fees

Unless the claimant's attorney can globally commute the case (both sides have to agree to commute a case) or can pursue permanent impairment benefits, then getting an attorney fee from a workers' compensation death case can be difficult to achieve.
7 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Beware of the Language Used in Your Settlement Agreements: Medicare Is Watching

The workers' compensation practitioner has now become a forced bedfellow of CMS, like it or not. If you fail to "issue spot" in relevant settlements, you will have problems.
8 minute read

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12 Noteworthy Statistics From the 2022 Pa. Workers' Compensation Annual Report

Here are 12 noteworthy statistics from the report and what they may tell us about Pennsylvania workers, their jobs and their employers.
8 minute read

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