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Public Works Contractors Now Required to Use E-Verify System in Pa.
The Legal Intelligencer
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
On January 1, the Public Works Employment Verification Act went into effect in Pennsylvania. Signed into law last July, the act requires all Pennsylvania public works contractors and subcontractors involved in projects of more than $25,000 to utilize E-Verify or lose the right to contract with Pennsylvania.
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Cross-Examining Defense Biomechanical Experts, Part III
The Legal Intelligencer
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
This is the last in a series of articles that have addressed cross-examining defense biomechanical experts and the field of biomechanics generally.
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Pledges to support organizations are prohibited
The Legal Intelligencer
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
I saw a candidate for the court of common pleas receive the endorsement of a county Fraternal Order of Police and in the endorsement agreed to sign a pledge to support issues involving police and other matters. Is that improper?
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Pa.'s Constitutional Crisis: Will Judicial Self-Interest Trump the Constitution?
The Legal Intelligencer
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Judges are sworn to uphold the Constitution and protect our constitutional form of government. But what happens when judicial self-interest collides with the Constitution? Pennsylvania may be on the precipice of a constitutional crisis.
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Project Management: The Driving Force Behind Today's Legal Technology
The Legal Intelligencer
Monday, April 8, 2013
Since the advent of the December 2006 Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Amendments, litigators have been pressured with managing the increasing exponential growth of their clients' electronically stored information (ESI) and continuously look toward technology to reduce costs and streamline traditional discovery practices.
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When Outside Counsel Won't Provide Budget Estimates
Law Technology News
Monday, April 8, 2013
Here is a single-topic mini audit that in-house counsel can administer to potential or current outside counsel. (It can be delivered remotely.)
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How to Realize the Anticipated Benefits From Law Firm Mergers
The Legal Intelligencer
Friday, April 5, 2013
Most mergers fail. Not just law firm mergers, mind you, but most mergers period. Studies cited in the Harvard Business Review peg the failure rate between 70 and 90 percent, a staggering figure when one considers the amount of time, energy and capital that is invested in M&A.
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Dispelling Two Popular Myths About Estate Planning With Life Insurance
The Legal Intelligencer
Friday, April 5, 2013
All too often, clients do not understand how their life insurance policies fit within their overall estate plan. The misunderstanding generally involves two key myths, both of which are false: (1) the idea that a will overrides a life insurance policy beneficiary designation and (2) the mistaken belief that life insurance proceeds are not includible in the insured's taxable estate for federal estate tax purposes.
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Scope of Work-Product Expert Discovery to Be Considered
The Legal Intelligencer
Friday, April 5, 2013
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court is set to hear argument April 10 regarding the scope of the work-product doctrine and the discovery of materials contained in a testifying expert's file.
