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Texas Lawyer

Nurse-Attorneys? Yes. Lawyers Are Donning Scrubs Again to Help Battle COVID-19

Multiple nurse-attorneys—dual professionals who hold licenses in the law and nursing—have paused their law practices to return to medicine during the coronavirus pandemic.
7 minute read

New York Law Journal

When Does PREP Act Immunity Apply to Measures To Treat COVID-19?

In times of epidemics and pandemics, like COVID-19, the federal Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act aims to expedite the manufacture, distribution, and use of medical devices and drugs by providing immunity from liability under federal and state law. This article addresses the scope of the immunity.
8 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Pandemic History and the Generation of Law

In a famous 1975 lecture before the Collège de France, the philosopher and social theorist Michel Foucault proposed that the plague of the mid-1300s…
6 minute read

Litigation Daily

Daily Dicta: Repeat After Me: It's a Bad Idea to Commit Discovery Fraud 

"A party who knowingly distorts or conceals the truth undermines the integrity of the process and maligns justice itself," wrote Senior U.S. District Judge Karon Owen Bowdre in Alabama.
5 minute read

Daily Business Review

Fla. and Federal Law Protects Patients, Medical Providers During Pandemic

Insurance companies and large for-profit health care companies have recently tried to take improper advantage of the pandemic by hiring high-priced lobbyists to advocate for broad blanket immunity for the owners of health care facilities.
5 minute read

The American Lawyer

McDermott's Ira Coleman on Guiding a Health Care Firm Through a Health Care Crisis

"We will be much more nimble. We will try not to use offices as status symbols anymore, because nobody can say they need it," McDermott Will & Emery chair Ira Coleman says of his firm's post-pandemic plans.
11 minute read

Daily Business Review

Fla. Invalidates Enforcement of Certain Physician Noncompetes, Signaling a Shift in Laws

Consistent with steps taken by many other states that have invalidated noncompetes for health care providers, Florida's decision is significant because it signals an emerging shift toward a ban on noncompetes for physicians and potentially others.
3 minute read

The American Lawyer

Arnold & Porter Lands Data Security Partner as Companies Assess Changing Needs

Partner Jami Mills Vibbert joins Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer's New York office from Venable.
4 minute read

National Law Journal

Exasperated Roberts Confronts Lingering Birth Control Coverage Questions

"Well, the problem is neither side in this debate wants the accommodation to work," Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. said at one point during Wednesday's arguments. "Is it really the case that there's no way to resolve those differences?"
5 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Attorneys Say Farewell to Murtha Cullina's Stephen Ronai, the 'Godfather of Health Care Law'

Colleagues at Murtha Cullina are mourning the loss of longtime health care attorney Stephen Ronai, who passed away after a long illness.
4 minute read

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