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Pro Mid Market

8 Tips From GCs for Outside Legal Counsel to Win and Retain Business

Outside counsel, business development professionals, and legal marketers want to know the secret to increasing client retention and new business acquisition rates.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

Why 'Bristol Myers' Doesn't Apply to Class Actions

Class action defendants are attempting to rewrite longstanding principles of personal jurisdiction, trying to defeat certification of nationwide classes by arguing that a court lacks personal jurisdiction over out-of-state class members' claims where the defendant does not reside in the court's forum state.
1 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Transforming a Family Law Practice to a Peacemaking Practice

Is a limited amount of legal assistance better for clients than no assistance at all? Can lawyers make a living and be proud of their professional practice without engaging in contentious litigation?
1 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Diversity Then and Now: How One Midsize Firm Tracked Its Progress

When I joined Flaster Greenberg in 2015 as a lateral associate, I remember scouring the firm's website for its “diversity and inclusion” statement.
1 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Pa.'s Antiquated Adoption Laws and the Emotional Risk Involved

Imagine new adoptive parents' broken hearts when they learn that the newborn they have raised for four weeks since his release from the hospital will be removed from their home.
1 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Uniform Support Guidelines Don't Treat All Families Uniformly

The Pennsylvania Support Guidelines were promulgated to ensure that “persons similarly situated shall be treated similarly” with regard to child support, spousal support and alimony pendente lite.
1 minute read

Corporate Counsel

2018 Consumer Protection Priorities of State Attorneys General

Attorneys general (AGs) are not only lawyers for their states; they are enforcers, regulators, and even public policy advocates. With a broad consumer protection mandate, a state AG is able to reach a wide range of industries that have a consumer touch.
1 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Pa. Adopts Revised Uniform Arbitration Act: Resolves Ambiguities, Conflicts

As of June 28, Pennsylvania has joined 20 other states and the District of Columbia in adopting the Revised Uniform Arbitration Act (RUAA), effective July 1, 2019, the objective of which is to update and facilitate the practice of arbitration.
1 minute read

New York Law Journal

Vacation Dangers: Liability Considerations When You're 'Getting Away'

Complex Litigation columnist Michael Hoenig writes: While the notion of “getting away” is understandably attractive and exciting, dangers lurk in many of these exploits. Vacationers, in unfamiliar surroundings, doing things they may not physically be prepared for, and taking risks they are not fully aware of can suffer injury, illness, even death while vacationing.
1 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Ethics Forum: Questions and Answers on Professional Responsibility

I am a suspended lawyer and want to work with a business or as a real estate agent. The Pennsylvania Rules of Disciplinary Enforcement, Rule 217(j) prohibits me from being involved in law-related activity. Almost every job in business has some aspect of law. Where is the line drawn?
2 minute read

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