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A Call for an Open Dialogue on Mental Health in the Law

The numbers are striking, and the concern is real. The legal industry needs to address lawyers' mental well-being.
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The Legal Intelligencer

Post-Trial Motions Are Usually, But Not Always, an Appellate Prerequisite

Pennsylvania appellate practitioners recite like a mantra the necessity of filing post-trial motions prior to an appeal—and not without reason. Pa R. Civ. P. 227.1 requires that post-trial motions be filed within 10 days of the final decision to preserve issues for appeal.
8 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

The Second Annual TWITA Awards

This year's honorees join a long line—well, a short line, really; more like a hyphen—of previous TWITA award winners whose service to the profession has been extraordinary.
8 minute read

Daily Business Review

Why No Comment Is a Comment—And It's Not a Good One

In this age of 24/7 news cycles and instantaneous social media coverage, directly answering a question to a potentially damaging situation can be fraught with anxiety.
5 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

And the Winner Is … Tribune Announces Attorney of the Year, Presents 2018 Awards

The 2018 Connecticut Legal Awards brightened the Bond Room at the Hilton Hartford Downtown Thursday night, with nearly 200 attendees on hand to celebrate professional excellence, including the 2018 Connecticut Law Tribune award for Attorney of the Year, which went to the University of Connecticut School of Law's Karen DeMeola.
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The Legal Intelligencer

Could Your Social Media Posts Be Used Against You in Court? 

The Pennsylvania Superior Court decided an issue of first impression in Pennsylvania—what is the standard for the authentication of social media postings at trial.
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

Lawyers and Alcohol Abuse: NYC Lawyer Assistance Program Is Here to Help

The findings of the landmark study of 13,000 currently practicing lawyers by the American Bar Association Commission on Lawyer Assistance Programs and the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation (ABA/Hazelden study) published in the American Bar Journal in 2016 and elsewhere, revealed that between 21 and 36 percent qualified as problem drinkers.
8 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Privilege Maintenance: Protecting Law Firm In-House Counsel Communications

Although the majority of courts who have reviewed this issue have recognized and enforced a privilege shared between law firm attorneys and their in-house counsel, there is some uncertainty nationwide.
6 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Excelsior: Fondly Remembering the Late Tom Ullmann

The members of the editorial board were shocked and deeply saddened to hear that a beloved member, Thomas J. Ullmann, died in a hiking accident on April 13, 2018, in the Adirondack Mountains in upstate New York.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Failure to Launch: Why Is Your Firm Failing to Be a 21st Century Employer?

Back in November 2017, I wrote the article, “Why Law Firms Should Already Be Embracing the Mobile Workforce”. That piece mainly focused on firms having work-from-home policies for attorneys and only slightly touched on similar policies for staff. Six months later, it doesn't seem like much has changed.
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