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September 28, 2010 |

Asbestos Defendant Who Didn't Appear for Trial Appeals $10 Mil. Award

A Philadelphia judge has asked an appellate court to uphold the $10 million in damages the judge awarded to an asbestos plaintiff and against which a gaskets manufacturer did not defend itself during a bench trial.
4 minute read
August 05, 2009 |

Stoecker v. Echevarria

Plaintiff's failure to comply with the affidavit of merit statute did not bar plaintiff from asserting a claim against her attorney for fraud because that claim did not require proof that the attorney deviated from the standard of care applicable to the legal profession.
5 minute read
January 09, 2012 |

Reinventing the Credit Rating

Shearman & Sterling's Bradley Sabel, Donald Lamson and Shriram Bhashyam write: Dodd-Frank lays out a different world in which credit rating agencies and users of ratings must operate. The premise is that requiring credit rating agencies to share underlying information would allow users to verify ratings independently and prompt agencies to issue more reliable ratings. This presupposes that users of ratings can recreate ratings as efficiently as a credit rating agency and inadvertently exposes users to greater uncertainty.
11 minute read
September 30, 2003 |

DNA Testing Expanded to All Convicted Persons in New Jersey

Legislation signed last week requires every person convicted of a crime in New Jersey, as well as convicts presently serving sentences, to submit blood or biological samples for DNA testing. The samples will be included in a statewide database and compared with those taken from unsolved crimes. As a result of the law, the state DNA data bank is expected to expand from the current 10,000 samples to more than 140,000 within the next two years.
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February 26, 2013 |

Justice Souter: Working in reverse, by choice

Justice David Souter retired from the U.S. Supreme Court in 2009 but has not stopped being a judge.
3 minute read
August 18, 2005 |

Lawmakers Seek Less-Expensive Patent System

Lawmakers in Washington are considering changes to the patent code that would bring U.S. law closer to intellectual property standards in the rest of the industrialized world. The change would convert the U.S. patent system from the uniquely American "first to invent" to "the first to file" standard the rest of the world uses.
6 minute read
November 10, 2008 |

Capital Punishment

Another Washington law office felt the brunt of the plummeting economy last week. On Nov. 3, shortly after 11 a.m., 17 McKee Nelson corporate/finance associates learned that they were losing their jobs.
1 minute read
July 27, 2009 |

K Street Monitor

"K Street Monitor" lists highlights of recent registrations filed by lobbyists with the secretary of the Senate and the clerk of the House.
3 minute read
April 15, 2011 |

Early Mistrial in Legal-Mal Case

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