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EMPLOYMENT LAW

A special section covering current topics of interest, including banning questions regarding an applicant's salary history, combating and investigating workplace harassment, and what the new governor will bring to the employment arena.
1 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Future of Lateral Moves: Practice Area, Geography and Economics Remain Important

Taking a look at emerging trends in lateral moves, can we predict for the near future that firms will more likely grow through larger groups or through individual hires? Well, as my accounting professor liked to say: It depends.
6 minute read

Daily Business Review

E-Discovery and Privilege: FRE 502(d) and Why Lawyers Should Use It

Despite the ever-greater attention to electronic discovery in the legal community, it is alarming how many attorneys—experienced attorneys—fail to implement an important safeguard that could prevent disastrous privilege waivers during discovery.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Responsibilities of Airlines to Provide Safe Travel for Animals

Traveling with a pet can create quite the dilemma. Many pet owners are reluctant to leave their pets behind when they travel, but traveling by air can be both stressful and, at times, dangerous for pets.
7 minute read

Daily Business Review

Broward Attorney Uses Delicate Touch to Sink $8 Million Case Against Geico

The optics weren't in his favor.In an $8 million lawsuit pitting a school counselor with paraplegia and her husband against Big Insurance, Coral Springs attorney…
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Don't Like An Award From Compulsory Arbitration? You Must Appeal.

Can a party to a case where a judgment has been entered in compulsory arbitration have that judgment modified without appealing? This is the underlying question in the recent matter heard by the Pennsylvania Superior Court, captioned as Blucas v. Agiovlasitis, 2018 Pa.Super. 25.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

One Year Later On the One-Year Separation

On Oct. 4, 2016, the waiting period for a no-fault divorce was reduced from two years to one year. The new law became effective on Dec. 3, 2016. The law was prospective and applied to separations which begun on or after Dec. 4, 2016. Now a year later the question becomes what if any impact this new legislation has had on obtaining a no-fault divorce in Pennsylvania.
7 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Jury Instructions in Products Liability Cases Create More Debate Than Consensus

With the law of products liability cases continuing to evolve in the post-Tincher era, growing pains are being felt by both the courts and practitioners. In particular, as reported in numerous recent articles in the Pennsylvania Law Weekly and The Legal Intelligencer, the trial courts are faced with conflicting positions from the plaintiff's bar and the defense bar on the proper language for jury instructions in post-Tincher products cases.
10 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

The Evolution of Focus Groups: From Deliberation to Debriefing

Since the 1940s, focus groups have been used to provide feedback to product sellers, television producers, governments and political candidates. Focus groups bring together a group of “ordinary people” to share their views on a topic or product.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Ethics Forum: Questions and Answers on Professional Responsibility

I saw an article recently about competency and the need for lawyers to become proficient on electronic discovery or else face disciplinary rule violations. I am an older lawyer. What should I do?
9 minute read

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