Some of the Commonwealth Court's judges seemed skeptical at oral arguments today as to whether Janssen Pharmaceutica defrauded the commonwealth out of $150 million in payments for antipsychotic drug Risperdal or if it was just a lack of research on behalf of the state.
By now, most litigators have bumped up against at least one or two social media issues in their practices.
In a significant and progressive step forward, the Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) last month announced new guidance for adjudication of immigration benefits in cases involving transgendered persons.
A federal magistrate judge in Brooklyn, N.Y., Joan M. Azrack, has apparently held that a transactional lawyer may be sanctioned for spoliation for failing to preserve documents, including emails, relating to the lawyer's negotiation and documentation of a loan agreement. This would be a new duty, independent of the "litigation hold" that most attorneys are familiar with, and could represent a significant change in the way transactional lawyers practice as well as presenting a significant new burden. The case is FDIC v. Malik , No. 09–CV–4805 (KAM)(JMA), 2012 WL 1019978 (E.D.N.Y., Mar. 26, 2012) (Azrack, U.S.M.J.).
It has been said that possession is nine-tenths of the law. Recently the Pennsylvania Supreme Court agreed to hear the appeal of a case that involves the other one-tenth, which seems unremarkable enough. Except that this one-tenth has the potential to affect hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of oil and gas leases in Pennsylvania.
The following series of articles examines law firm revenue trends and how firms can grow revenue in the current market.
Financial results from the last year for law firms across Pennsylvania are examined in this collection of articles from The Legal Intelligencer.
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Business development for women lawyers is examined in this video taken from the Women in the Profession Roundtable sponsored by The Legal Intelligencer. Lawyers from large and small firms discuss the different methods and challenges faced by women lawyers as they attempt to create a book of business.
Copyrights: From challenges to patent validity; acronyms as domain names; trademark I-Pad issues; to joint infringment's effect on Cloud computing -- all can be found in our Intellectual Property Supplement.
The Legal Intelligencer's special report on Women in the Profession features profiles of the Women of the Year, a roundtable discussion on a wide range of topics facing women lawyers today, plus in-depth articles on social media, motherhood, technology, business development and more.
In-depth articles on mediation, certification, retirement standards, changes in WCJ regulations, and hidden liability are featured in this special Workers' Compensation Supplement.