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How Reading Poetry Helps You With Your Lawyering

Feeling down as a lawyer? Seeking transcendence? Needing a mindset transplant? Here's a suggestion: read poetry.
8 minute read

Texas Lawyer

How to Handle Digital Damage Control

How much (legal) trouble can one employee get into with a smartphone and a social media account or two? Hint, hint: It's more than most in-house counsel would want to admit.
7 minute read

New York Law Journal

'O'Brien': A Sea Change ... or Not?

Construction Accident Litigation columnist Brian J. Shoot writes: The Court of Appeals ended March with a 4-to-3 ruling that at least some defense advocates are already heralding as having effected a sea change in the jurisprudence concerning the so-called "scaffold statute." I think it far more likely that the case was, at bottom, just about exterior stairs and the impossibility of keeping them dry when it rains.
19 minute read

National Law Journal

DC Circuit Judge Warns Ruling Could 'Destabilize' Most Arbitration Awards

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Friday invoked a rare public-policy exception that "threatens to destabilize" arbitration awards in future cases, a federal appeals judge said in her dissent. "The court's decision to vacate the arbitral award in this case contradicts decades of precedent delineating a narrow public policy exception and threatens as a practical matter to destabilize many, if not most, arbitral awards," Judge Nina Pillard wrote.
13 minute read

National Law Journal

DC Circuit Judge Warns Ruling Could 'Destabilize' Most Arbitration Awards

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Friday invoked a rare public-policy exception that "threatens to destabilize" arbitration awards in future cases, a federal appeals judge said in her dissent. "The court's decision to vacate the arbitral award in this case contradicts decades of precedent delineating a narrow public policy exception and threatens as a practical matter to destabilize many, if not most, arbitral awards," Judge Nina Pillard wrote.
13 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Arsdel v. Liberty Life Assurance Co. of Boston, PICS Case No. 17-0638 (E.D. Pa. March 30, 2017) Smith, U.S.D.J. (76 pages).

By | April 28, 2017
Insurer's denial of long-term disability benefits was arbitrary and capricious where insurer failed to consider insured's job requirements in determining how insured's "occupation" was performed in the national economy. Plaintiff's motion for summary judgment granted.
7 minute read

Daily Business Review

Senate Confirms FIU Law Dean Alex Acosta as Labor Secretary

Acosta heads to Washington on a 60-38 vote that fills out President Donald Trump's Cabinet.
9 minute read

National Law Journal

States Take On Battle Over Regulating the Gig Economy

Florida lawmakers will likely pass a measure that classifies drivers for companies such as Uber and Lyft as independent contractors rather than employees, marking the latest state to attempt to regulate the rapidly growing and litigious ride-hailing workforce.
13 minute read

National Law Journal

States Take On Battle Over Regulating the Gig Economy

Florida lawmakers will likely pass a measure that classifies drivers for companies such as Uber and Lyft as independent contractors rather than employees, marking the latest state to attempt to regulate the rapidly growing and litigious ride-hailing workforce.
12 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Williams v. Raymours Furniture Co., Inc.

By | April 27, 2017
State Where Employee Accepted Offer Could Exercise Jurisdiction Over Work Injury
4 minute read

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