The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Jennifer W. Karpchuk | April 2, 2024
If Pennsylvania legalizes and taxes medical marijuana, what are its options? Shapiro proposed a 20% tax on the wholesale price of cannabis. The states that have legalized and are taxing marijuana have taken varied approaches, yet they fall into three general categories of excise taxes: percentage-of-price taxes; weight-based taxes; and potency-based taxes.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Kenneth Stark and Martha "Frannie" Reilly | April 2, 2024
The Pennsylvania Broadband Development Authority is currently accepting applications for the multipurpose community facilities program. Funded through the federal capital projects fund established under the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), the facilities program will distribute up to $45 million in competitive grants to community anchor institutions and local governments to ensure reliable and affordable broadband internet access.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Rich Lee | March 29, 2024
Our conversation highlighted three very different angles—how the mindsets of litigators and parties affect a matter, how insurance companies use ADR, and how a new effort to build gender diversity is faring. We also discussed the challenges facing arbitration and the risks they bring to this critical service.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Bradley D. Remick | March 29, 2024
We were certain that the Azzarello standard, the artificial distinction between negligence and strict liability, was going to fade to some extent and strict liability defendants were going to be afforded the opportunity to present evidence that was relevant to their defenses. Instead, rather than adopting the Restatement (Third) of Torts, the court surprisingly adopted the risk utility and consumer expectation tests that were first developed in California.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By The Young Lawyer Editorial Board | March 28, 2024
What we need, but are often too hesitant to ask for, are strong mentors. We know we bear ultimate responsibility for our career trajectories. But good mentors may be the difference between staying to fight another day or leaving the profession entirely.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Andrea M. Kirshenbaum and Jennifer N. Capozzola | March 25, 2024
While the DOL rule took effect as scheduled (in contrast to the NLRB joint employer rule that was struck down by a Texas federal court on March 8), multiple lawsuits stand in its path and lawmakers in both chambers of Congress are challenging the 2024 IC Rule under the Congressional Review Act.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Carl W. Hittinger and Ayanna Brown | March 25, 2024
The strike force's launch is to continue the efforts of the president's Competition Council, which was established "to work across agencies to provide a coordinated response to overconcentration, monopolization, and unfair competition in or directly affecting the American economy."
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Jules Epstein | March 25, 2024
An expert with knowledge that jurors don't have should be permitted to testify when that knowledge will inform the decisionmaker and meets the basic relevance threshold.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Lawrence J. Kotler and Elisa Hyder | March 22, 2024
Small businesses seeking to reorganize should be mindful of this growing area of case law as they weigh their different reorganization options including, importantly, where they choose to reorganize and what type of reorganization chapter they should pursue.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Marci Taylor | March 22, 2024
As Gen X and millennials ascend to leadership positions in law firms, they have a lot on their respective plates—an industry facing rapid change, innovation promising to fundamentally change the way lawyers work, continued stratification in the market, ongoing struggles to attract and retain talent and the daunting task of building thriving firm cultures in a hybrid work world.
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