By Ross Todd | September 14, 2017
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher has taken home the overall prize in The Recorder's Corporate Department of the Year contest, which honors firms whose California lawyers worked on the biggest, most complex and trendsetting deals this past year. Sidley Austin and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, which both worked on blockbuster deals of their own, have been named finalists in the overall competition.
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By Ross Todd | September 14, 2017
The Recorder is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2017 Litigation Departments of the Year. The awards recognize law firms whose California litigators have delivered outstanding service—and wins—for their clients in the year's most demanding litigation matters.
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By Monika Gonzalez Mesa | September 14, 2017
Law firms that handle insurance claims are marketing themslves to hurricane victims, anticipating that a flood of insurance claim disputes will arise in the wake of the storm.
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By Miriam Rozen | September 14, 2017
"She doesn't forget what she is told to do, doesn't complain, and never asks for a raise," said Megan Pavich, senior attorney for the company.
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By Matthew B. Weisberg | September 14, 2017
Every jurisdiction's court (federal and state) has the authority to sanction a party and its counsel for litigation misconduct. These sanctions tend to divide based on severity—from most severe to least: sua sponte (a court's inherent authority); vexatious multiplication of proceedings; frivolity; and discovery noncompliance. Each of these degrees of sanctions carry with it attendant sanctions damages. Likewise, each requires a greater level of intent (i.e., from the intentional "defilement" of the court to neglect).
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By Eugene Hamill and Gerard Cedrone | September 14, 2017
Larry Coben's recent article in the Law Weekly, published on Aug. 15, asks the question, "Should Vehicle Manufacturers Be Entitled to Apportionment of Liability?" We contend that Pennsylvania's tort law should be applied to vehicle manufacturers in just the same way it is applied to any other litigant.
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By Samuel C. Stretton | September 14, 2017
I noted billboards and other advertisements of a firm that is primarily based in Florida advertising in Pennsylvania. The firm features a picture of apparently the senior partner who states words to the effect, "I am your lawyer." They are advertising for personal injury cases. The ads give the impression that that lawyer will handle the cases. I am only aware of one office and one newly admitted lawyer in Pennsylvania for the firm. Is that ethical?
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By Cliff Rieders | September 14, 2017
Most lawyers in Pennsylvania, regardless of whether they regularly practice employment law, are undoubtedly aware that under Pennsylvania law, "as a general rule, employees are at-will, absent a contract, and may be terminated at any time, for any reason or for no reason," as in Stumpp v. Stroudsburg Municipal Authority, 540 Pa. 391, 396 (1995). The practitioner should also be aware that among the few exceptions to the "at-will" employment doctrine are the statutory protections for employees afforded by Pennsylvania's Whistleblower Law, 43 P.S. Section 1421.
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By Miriam Rozen | September 14, 2017
The oil company and its lawyers got some good news and some bad news this week in what may be a rising sea of litigation tied to climate change.
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By Suzanne Tullo | September 14, 2017
Megan Wade joins Taylor & Sexton as an associate while Zachary Kohl joins Szilagyi & Daly also as an associate.
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