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July 03, 2006 |

Thou Shall Not Lie

This article explores how information concerning a plaintiff/employee's untruthfulness can sometimes serve as a means to limit the damages that would otherwise be available to a successful plaintiff and be presented in the form of opinion and reputation evidence at a trial to challenge the plaintiff's character.
7 minute read
October 09, 2009 |

Non-L.A. Firms Breaking Into Entertainment Law

When Summit Entertainment LLC needed an attorney to help promote its new vampire movie, "The Twilight Saga: New Moon," General Counsel David Friedman turned to someone he knew well: an old colleague from his former job at Paramount Pictures.
9 minute read
March 31, 2010 |

Stengart v. Loving Care Agency Inc.

An employee may reasonably expect that e-mail communications with her lawyer through her personal, password-protected, Web-based e-mail account would remain private, and that sending and receiving them using a company laptop did not eliminate the attorney-client privilege.
5 minute read
May 06, 2002 |

Court`s ADA Rulings Aren`t Winning Kudos for Clarity

Whether or not the current spate of ADA cases is due to congressional imprecision in drafting, the Court`s own decisions are not producing bright-line rules either, leaving both sides discontented and uncertain about what to do next.
6 minute read
February 06, 2006 |

Food, Glorius Food: General Counsel for Organic Grocer Keeps It Natural

Roberta Lang is vice president of legal affairs and general counsel for Austin-based Whole Foods Market Inc.
5 minute read
July 24, 2000 |

Tossing History Aside

They must be spinning in their graves. Not just any graves, but some of the most hallowed and aristocratic family vaults around the country. These aren't just any dead people, but the kind of "white guys" whose national stewardship was once accepted without question. What triggered this turmoil beneath the tombstones? A radical conspiracy by insurgent hippie-commie-socialists? Not exactly. It's the law firm marketers.
5 minute read
July 28, 2010 |

Financial reform keeps law firm banking and securities practices busy

Regulations for the recently enacted financial reform law are months away, but law firms with strong financial services practices are rolling out the welcome mat for client conferences and filling their calendars with client meetings.
4 minute read
June 15, 2007 |

Second-Rung New Jersey Firms Are Thriving and Growing

The next tier of New Jersey's large firms employed almost 1,200 lawyers in 2006, posted total revenues of more than half a billion dollars and showed net profits of more than $173 million, making them essential to analyze as bellwethers of law-firm financial activity.
4 minute read
March 28, 2005 |

New Rules For Foreign Professionals

The latest immigration measures affecting the H-1B and L visa programs are part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2005 (H.R. 4818), signed into law by President Bush on Dec. 8, 2004. The act contains the H-1B and L-1 Visa Reform Acts, which provide for more annual H-1B visas, tighter regulation of certain L-1 workers and increased filing fees for both visa categories.
8 minute read
January 04, 2000 |

Invasion of the Lawyer Snatchers

The invasion of the Northeast's megafirms topped New Jersey's legal stories in 1999, a year that saw two venerable partnerships and dozens of smaller groups swept up in the tide of colonization. From the purchase of 110-lawyer Shanley & Fisher by Philadelphia's Drinker, Biddle & Reath to the defection of legions of lone lawyers, hardly a week passed without an announcement that a New York or Pennsylvania firm had gobbled up a partnership or a practice section.
14 minute read

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