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Parents and Children Suffer Without Parenting Coordinators
The Legal Intelligencer
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
I read with interest the article titled, "Concerns Over Judicial Authority Drove Parenting Coordination Elimination," published in the May 7 edition of Pennsylvania Law Weekly.
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Questions & Answers on Professional Responsibility.
The Legal Intelligencer
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
I am running for judicial office. What should a candidate for judicial office not do?
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Civil Practitioner's Role in Internal Investigation
The Legal Intelligencer
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
This is practical advice for the civil practitioner whose client organization becomes involved in a grand jury investigation or other official inquiry. This advice applies to an in-house general counsel of a large corporation or an outside practitioner to smaller companies, labor unions or medical practice groups.
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Landlord Can Collect From Abandoning, New Tenants
The Legal Intelligencer
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
In these distressed economic times, it is not uncommon for a commercial tenant to discontinue its business operations and relinquish possession of the premises even if there are years left on the lease term.
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Ten Lessons From Athletes to Excel in the Boardroom: Part I
The Legal Intelligencer
Monday, May 20, 2013
I had lunch recently with a lawyer who had been a standout athlete. The conversation underscored a realization, based on almost 30 years in the legal profession, that many of the most successful partners, CEOs, general counsel and law firm leaders who I have worked with have athletic backgrounds.
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Judges Chime in on Proposed E-Discovery Amendments
Law Technology News
Monday, May 20, 2013
Nothing draws a crowd of lawyers like the chance to listen to judges, especially when the agenda includes the likes of United States District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin and Magistrate Judge James Francis IV , both of the Second District of New York, and Circuit Judge Peter Flynn, Circuit Court of Cooke County, Chancery Division, Illinois State Courts.
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American College of Trial Lawyers Leads the Way on Access to Justice
The Legal Intelligencer
Friday, May 17, 2013
In 2009, at the instigation of then-Chancellor Sayde Ladov, the Philadelphia Bar Association created a Civil Gideon Task Force to study problems of access to justice.
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Subsequent Mortgagees Get No Satisfaction From Forged Statement
The Legal Intelligencer
Friday, May 17, 2013
In Secured Lending 101, we learn that the general rule is "first in time, first in right." Well, how does one determine who is "first in time"? Generally, secured lenders may rely on state and county recording offices to determine the priority of their lien against a borrower's property.
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Lean in and Promote the Future of Women in the Profession
The Legal Intelligencer
Thursday, May 16, 2013
We have all read the myriad articles recounting the depressing statistics about the gender gap in the legal profession. We could lament that, despite the fact that more than half of incoming law school students are women, barely 15 percent of equity partners and just 26 percent of nonequity partners at the nation's most prestigious law firms are women. We could sigh as we hear that nearly half of the women in the profession leave mid-career and do not return to the practice. Or, as Sheryl Sandberg suggests in her new book, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead — which was recently released to much fanfare and has caused quite a stir in executive suites and feminist circles — we could "lean in" and figure out how to get women a seat at the table in leadership positions in the legal profession.
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How the Predictive Coding Process Will Affect Paralegals
The Legal Intelligencer
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Technology-assisted review and the predictive coding process have transformed the discovery process of litigation in ways that were inconceivable even a decade ago. In fact, if you look up the definitions of technology-assisted review and predictive coding in Black's Law Dictionary, Garner's Dictionary of Legal Usage, or the Wolters Kluwer Bouvier Law Dictionary, you will be forced to look elsewhere. This lack of definition does not minimize the importance of these concepts, but instead reflects the speed at which technology is changing.
