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October 29, 1999 |

Negligent Expert Can Be Sued for Malpractice

An expert witness is not protected from professional malpractice liability by the doctrine of witness immunity, Pennsylvania's Supreme Court ruled. The expert's testimony was stricken because a mathematical error pointed out to him during cross-examination completely undermined his calculation of a plaintiff's damages. Plaintiffs claim the bungled expert testimony offered in a breach of contract suit in 1989 cost them $2.7 million.
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April 02, 2001 |

At Harvard Law, They'd Rather Not Be in Philadelphia

In his federal courts class, Harvard Law School Professor Richard H. Fallon lectures on two landmark Supreme Court rulings arising from Pennsylvania cases -- 1938's Erie v. Tompkins and 1961's U.S. v. Clearfield -- but few of his students consider actually practicing in Philadelphia. It seems the city can't shake its second-tier status in the eyes of Harvard Law School students.
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September 24, 1999 |

Deadline for Filing Bias Claims Extended

A work-sharing agreement between the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the New York State Division of Human Rights extends the time for filing employment discrimination claims from 180 to 300 days, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled. Recognizing an interpretation already adopted by several other circuits, the appeals court found that a complaint filed with the EEOC within 300 days is deemed timely, despite a widely recognized 180-day federal filing deadline. New York Law Journal
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October 14, 2008 |

A tale of three crises

Many of us do not know or have forgotten that the U.S. experienced a big real-estate-investment-trust-driven financial crisis in the mid-1970s, and a huge bank-and-savings-and-loan crisis between 1980 and 1994, with real estate playing a major role in both. During the latter period 1,617 banks insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
14 minute read
June 02, 2003 |

New Deals

Valero Energy Corp. acquires Orion Refining Corp. And the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport issue $1.46 billion in bonds.
3 minute read
October 13, 2011 |

South battles poverty as right-to-work lure fades

Nineteen years ago, when BMW announced a new factory off Interstate 85 in Spartanburg, South Carolina looked like the king of smokestack recruiting. The world's biggest manufacturer of luxury vehicles would make the city a "Mecca of foreign investment in the United States," The Independent of London predicted.
6 minute read
February 07, 2002 |

A Tale Of Two Professions

SOMEBODY tell Greedy Associates that the days of universal avarice and exhaustion are over. The message that flashed recently across the biting Web site seemed like a cruel joke: "Are you overworked? Underpaid? Want your life back?"
8 minute read
September 11, 2006 |

GC Ann Baskins Faces the Eye of the HP Storm

Ann Baskins has spent almost her entire career at Hewlett-Packard, and has been GC for the past six years. Now she's very near the center of a growing storm over the boardroom investigation at the computing giant. Newspaper stories detailing the crisis place Baskins at several key junctures in the ongoing saga questioning the investigative techniques used concerning press leaks by board members. Though the drama has yet to play out, there are already calls, in some quarters, for Baskins to be fired.
3 minute read
February 14, 2005 |

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