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The Legal Intelligencer

Township of Neshannock v. Kirila Contractor, Inc. et al, PICS Case No. 17-0837 (C.P. Lawrence May 18, 2017) Hodge, J. (39 pages).

Neither the attorney-client privilege nor the work-product privilege applied to many of the emails which plaintiff sought to exclude from evidence at trial where such emails were not drafted by an attorney or party representative and the emails did not relate to a fact of which an attorney was informed by his client for purposes of securing a legal opinion or services. The court recommended affirmance of decision on appeal.
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The Legal Intelligencer

David R. Nicholson, Builder, LLC v. Jablonski, PICS Case No. 17-0874 (Pa. Super. May 19, 2017) Gantman, P.J. (16 pages).

Court of common pleas properly determined that it lacked jurisdiction over appeal because appellant failed to perfect in a timely manner by timely filing a counseled complaint and sole member's pro se complaint and appeal were ineffectual because LLC entities had to be represented by a qualified attorney in the courts of common pleas. Affirmed.
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

Polarizing Design Defect Claims Law Could Be Refined

The law has generated a firestorm of controversy among competing interests, and it still is targeted for change, writes attorney Jason D. Salvin.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Ex-Client Sues Cozen O'Connor Over Pepper Hamilton Departures

Cozen O'Connor is facing allegations that it failed to properly handle conflicts in a multimillion-dollar construction law arbitration after hiring a group of construction lawyers from Pepper Hamilton.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

'O'Brien' Reaffirms Decades of Law Protecting Workers

John Zaremba, Michael Jaffe, Nick Gjelaj and Daniel O'Toole write: While ladders and scaffolds clearly fall within Labor Law §240(1)'s protections as specifically enumerated devices, the Court of Appeals has now made clear that so do staircases and other devices which serve as the functional equivalent of protected devices. This is a refreshing reaffirmation of the protective principles of the labor law.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

$2 Million Settlement Reached in Table Saw Amputation Lawsuit

A man who amputated his finger with a table saw has settled claims against the toolmaker and the saw's owner for $2 million between them, according to the plaintiff's attorneys.
21 minute read

New York Law Journal

McManus v. Tetra Tech Construction, Inc.

Dodd-Frank Claim Over Firm's Accounting Practices Violating Sarbanes-Oxley Survives
2 minute read

National Law Journal

DOJ Will Assist UK Agencies Pursuing Corruption, Fraud

In a first for the U.S. Department of Justice, the agency is sending an anti-corruption prosecutor to work in a U.K. agency on white-collar crimes. Acting principal deputy assistant attorney general Trevor McFadden, in remarks prepared for a May 24 speech in Brazil, said it was part of the DOJ's growing cooperation with foreign prosecutors.
3 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Morgan Lewis Expands Latin America Practice with Two Hires in Houston

New partners come from King & Spalding.
34 minute read

The American Lawyer

Perkins Coie Bags Sheppard Mullin's Bay Area Co-Leader

Meredith Jones-McKeown, co-managing partner of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton's San Francisco office and co-chair of the firm's construction practice, has joined Perkins Coie's commercial litigation and construction practices as a partner. Both firms have been active in the lateral market so far this year.
66 minute read

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