By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | July 27, 2017
Samantha D. Jallah joined Post & Schell as an associate in the firm's health care practice group in its Harrisburg office.
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By Katheryn Hayes Tucker | July 27, 2017
Following the dismissal of the deep pockets in lawsuits against institutions accused of allowing sexual abuse of children to continue in secret, lawyers and lawmakers are teaming up to toughen Georgia's Hidden Predator Act in the next legislative session.
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By Lizzy McLellan | July 27, 2017
The firm hopes to teach its aspiring lawyers a key skill they probably didn't get in law school: how to win clients.
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By Anna Zhang | July 27, 2017
The deal has been called off because it failed to win regulatory approval from the U.S. interagency committee.
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By Miriam Rozen | July 27, 2017
Experts said that while Gibson Dunn's connections to the University of Southern California don't mean it can't adequately investigate a brewing scandal there, public perception may be another matter.
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By Tyler Tassone | July 27, 2017
Patent applications increasingly encounter subject matter eligibility rejections under 35 U.S.C. Section 101, particularly those applications directed to software and business methods. These rejections can be difficult to overcome, even for experienced patent practitioners due to lack of clear precedent and continuously evolving case law. The Supreme Court decisions in Mayo v. Prometheus (US 2012), and Alice v. CLS Bank International (US 2014), set forth the current framework for determining patentable subject matter eligibility under Section 101.
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By Samuel C. Stretton | July 27, 2017
As a lawyer practicing for 20 years, I have often heard older lawyers talk about practicing until they drop in their boots. Is it realistic and ethical to think that way?
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By Kathleen M. Kline | July 27, 2017
A decision rendered last month by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania reinterpreted the commonwealth's obligations under Article I, Section 27 of the Pennsylvania Constitution, known as the Environmental Rights Amendment (ERA). The Supreme Court sided with the appellant, Pennsylvania Environmental Defense Foundation (PEDF), in PEDF v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 10 MAP 2015, and held that the commonwealth had violated the fiduciary duty imposed on it by the ERA.
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By Edward T. Kang | July 27, 2017
There seems to be a common misunderstanding about the proper way to use Rule of Evidence 408 relating to evidence of offers of compromise and settlement discussions. Let's take the recent Bill Cosby criminal trial as an example. In March, Cosby moved to dismiss any evidence regarding any aspect of settlement of the civil action between him and Andrea Constand from 2006. He argued in part that evidence of the civil settlement was inadmissible under Pennsylvania Rule of Evidence 408. The court disagreed with that argument, however, reasoning that the settlement documents were relevant to show Cosby's consciousness of guilt and efforts to obstruct the criminal investigation. The court ultimately did not allow the jury to hear any evidence of settlement of the civil suit. While the court neither issued an opinion nor provided any reasoning for its decision to exclude the evidence of civil action settlement, Cosby's defense team had argued both that the exceptions to Rule 408 did not apply and that the evidence was unfairly prejudicial under Rule 403. Nevertheless, the court's rejection of Cosby's argument that evidence of settlement is inadmissible under Rule 408 demonstrates practitioners' need to better understand the rule: Had the evidence of civil action settlement been admitted, the Cosby criminal trial might have had a different outcome. This rule has the potential to change the trajectory of a trial and greatly influence the jury.
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By Meghan Tribe | July 27, 2017
Riley Safer Holmes & Cancila, a firm formed in 2016 by a large group of ex-Schiff Hardin partners, has hired nearly a dozen lawyers led by Bryan Cave's Chicago managing partner Joseph McCoy and Schiff Hardin's antitrust leader and noted sports industry litigator Gregory Curtner. All but two of the firm's new hires are African American.
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