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September 27, 2010 |

Make new crack law retroactive

Such a move would permit thousands of men and women who were harshly sentenced long ago to benefit from lawmakers' enlightened perspectives.
4 minute read
July 22, 2011 |

Handle Loaded E-Discovery Tools With Care

The venerable computer forensics and e-discovery special master, Craig Ball, has gone on record to say to lawyers that "it's time to learn" technology to better communicate with IT staff and be prepared for e-discovery. That's not to say that lawyers need to engage e-discovery tasks as experts. Given the tools to accomplish such tasks, many lawyers may forget they are lawyers in their zeal to uncover the smoking gun and inadvertently take a peek at privileged or private documents. ... [MORE]
3 minute read
March 17, 2005 |

Mind Share

Barbara Lawless is tired of hearing from stressed-out workers. She'd rather get a call from someone with bipolar disorder. By contrast, she finds, stress is too common and too subtle to sway a jury. Employment lawyers didn't always speak the language of mental disability litigation. Such claims used to be rare. "What we're seeing now is what the plaintiff lawyers have been saying all along: That a mental disability is the same as a physical disability," said plaintiff attorney Todd Schneider.
6 minute read
April 09, 2009 |

Judge denies bail in 1966 police death

A judge denied bail Thursday for a 72-year-old man facing murder charges after the death of a police officer he shot four decades ago.
2 minute read
August 26, 2013 |

Jonathan B. "Jon" Pannell | 35

Name a city in Georgia and it's likely that Jon Pannell or his partners at Gray Pannell & Woodward in Savannah have done legal work for a bond issue there.
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May 10, 2005 |

Keeping Pace With New Rules For Foreign Professionals

Attorneys Christine Alber and Parisa Salimi examine the latest immigration measures affecting H-1B and L visa programs under the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2005. Although the H-1B Visa Reform Act fails to address the dearth of visas made available each year, one provision provides a reprieve for H-1B employers, creating an exemption from the annual cap for up to 20,000 foreign nationals with master's or higher-level degrees from U.S. universities.
8 minute read
January 29, 2007 |

Fraud Suit Says Car Makers Plotted To Keep Canadian Cars From U.S.

The New Jersey Supreme Court heard arguments Monday on whether a consumer fraud class action suit can proceed against American and Canadian carmakers for allegedly conspiring to inflate new car prices in the United States.
3 minute read
November 15, 2011 |

Calif. Judge Spreads Federal Circuit's Gospel: Less Is More

Speaking to the rocket docket crowd and visitors from less plaintiff-friendly jurisdictions, Federal Circuit Chief Judge Randall Rader announced a novel advisory order that calls for strict limits on electronic discovery in patent suits, which can cost accused infringers dearly even on bogus claims.
8 minute read
July 18, 2005 |

Despite Business Expertise, Insured Can Invoke Discovery Rule

The Superior Court has ruled that an Allegheny County man's experience in investing did not afford him any special understanding of the insurance industry that would prevent him from invoking the discovery rule in a lawsuit alleging deceptive marketing an
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