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    Mandatory Arbitration Clauses: A Sneaky Secret of Nursing Homes

    The Legal Intelligencer

    Thursday, February 9, 2012

    A client walks into your office and tells you a horrible story of abuse and neglect his loved one endured in a nursing home. You ask to see the admission paperwork, and as you quickly thumb through it looking for one important document, the client tells you how he wants the nursing home to be held responsible for the unacceptable standard of care.

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    Discograms Are Useful for Establishing Causality and Extent of Damages

    The Legal Intelligencer

    Tuesday, February 7, 2012

    Understanding the terminology in diagnostic reports and the limitations and advantages of certain diagnostic tests is the focus of this third article in a series.

    Projecting Wage Growth and Inflation in Today's Economic Climate

    The Legal Intelligencer

    Tuesday, February 7, 2012

    On Jan. 25, the Federal Reserve System issued a statement indicating that it currently anticipates economic conditions ? including low rates of resource utilization and a subdued outlook for inflation over the medium run ? are likely to warrant exceptionally low levels for the federal funds rate at least through late 2014. The federal funds rate is the interest rate at which depository institutions actively trade balances held at the Federal Reserve, called federal funds, with each other, usually overnight, on an uncollateralized basis.

    A Clean Slate: Ways to Ease Stress and Improve Your Practice

    The Legal Intelligencer

    Tuesday, January 31, 2012

    Another new year has come and 11 more months stretch out in front of us until the next one. It's still a clean slate and there is plenty that can be accomplished in the year ahead in terms of reducing stress and improving one's enjoyment and success in the practice of law.

    When Can You Seek to Vacate an Arbitration Award?

    The Legal Intelligencer

    Tuesday, January 31, 2012

    "Do you ever do anything right when it comes to alternative dispute resolution? How do you keep attracting clients if all you do is make mistakes?"

    To Evaluate Arguments, Know Diagnostic Testing Technologies

    The Legal Intelligencer

    Tuesday, January 24, 2012

    My previous article was the first in a series focusing on understanding the terminology in diagnostic reports, and the limitations and advantages of certain diagnostic tests. The first article focused on X-ray and MRI testing.

    Is an Attorney-Expert Privilege Developing in Pennsylvania?

    The Legal Intelligencer

    Tuesday, January 17, 2012

    In Pennsylvania's state courts, practitioners have long juggled the obligation to provide detailed, comprehensive expert reports in support of their case with their obligation to preserve the protection afforded by the attorney work-product privilege.

    The Evolving Landscape of Modern Tort Liability

    The Legal Intelligencer

    Friday, January 13, 2012

    The common law has provided predictability in the products liability system for decades. Despite this historically sound conclusion, proponents of legal reform, intent on reducing unnecessary legal costs and using "predictability" as their mantra, have sought ways to alter this landscape through caps on both compensatory and punitive damage awards, abolishing joint liability, eliminating the collateral source rule, limiting a seller's liability for express warranties or direct negligence, creating comparative fault for product misuse and setting a statute of repose within the ordinary use-life of most products.

    Major Changes to Removal Jurisdiction in 2012

    The Legal Intelligencer

    Monday, January 9, 2012

    With surprisingly little coverage or commentary, on Dec. 7, 2011, President Obama signed new legislation that will significantly change the rules for removing cases to federal court.

    When It Comes to Removal, Timing Is Everything

    The Legal Intelligencer

    Wednesday, December 28, 2011

    Corporate defendants sued in state court often reflexively seek removal to federal court because they believe it is a more fair and efficient forum. In contrast, plaintiffs generally fight removal because they view state court as a friendlier venue.

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