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November 30, 2010 |

100 Largest Law Firms Alphabetically

The following is a list of the 100 largest law firms in Pennsylvania sorted alphabetically as reported in the 2010 edition of PaLAW magazine.
18 minute read
July 09, 1999 |

What a Long, Strange Trip

The Grateful Dead may look tie-dyed and laid back from the outside, but few other performing groups operate in such a businesslike fashion. One of the house rules that Harold Hal Sanford Kant, who serves as general counsel, lives by is that contracts for the Grateful Dead must be short, concise and eminently readable. Rarely will he allow a contract to grow to more than four pages. "And I write them so band members can understand every single word," Kant says.
9 minute read
June 26, 1999 |

Attorneys' Fees in a Nutshell

Under the well-settled "American Rule," litigants generally must pay their own attorneys' fees -- win or lose. One major exception to the rule arises under statutes that contain fee-shifting provisions. This article examines attorneys' fee awards to prevailing parties -- both plaintiffs and defendants -- in employment-related cases arising under anti-discrimination statutes.
29 minute read
March 13, 2012 |

Daily Decision Service Alert: Vol. 21, No. 50 - March 13, 2012

Daily decision alert.
15 minute read
August 05, 2013 |

Taxing the Marcellus Shale

In the commotion of ramping up drilling operations and focusing on the impact fee, companies may fail to fully consider the effects of Pennsylvania's sales, corporate net income and franchise taxes on their Marcellus Shale operations.
7 minute read
August 22, 2005 |

Economic Loss Doctrine

The concept behind the economic loss doctrine is ostensibly simple. Recent decisions demonstrate, however, that courts can have difficulty applying the doctrine.
7 minute read
July 09, 2008 |

Nursing Home Litigation

When a nursing home resident is injured, tort litigation is traditionally the venue of choice for plaintiffs seeking compensation. However, with the risk of large verdicts appearing to increase in the last quarter-century, physicians and long-term health care facilities have begun to pursue mandatory arbitration as an alternative to traditional litigation.
12 minute read
April 16, 2009 |

Mayer Brown to retool management structure, reestablish managing partner post

Partners at Mayer Brown, one of the ten biggest U.S. law firms, will vote this week on a new governance structure that would create a new smaller management committee at the firm, a separate larger board, and re-establish a managing partner post. The firm said earlier this month that partners will also vote on electing partner Bert Krueger as chairman after he was nominated last month for the post.
3 minute read
August 23, 2005 |

Products Liability: The Economic Loss Doctrine

Under the economic loss doctrine, when an allegedly defective product causes solely economic loss or lost "benefit of the bargain," there can be no recovery in tort. However, recent decisions demonstrate that courts can have difficulty applying the doctrine, J. Russell Jackson writes. Russell analyzes these recent rulings, which reflect a spirited debate about the fundamental purposes underlying products liability and implicate important public policies at the intersection of tort law and contract.
7 minute read
March 22, 1999 |

Docket Watch: Reviewing the Cops' Media Relations

The long-standing symbiotic relationship between the police and the news media is under siege, and the U.S. Supreme Court is about to join in the attack. Two cases being argued Wednesday, Hanlon v. Berger and Wilson v. Layne, involve the hoary tradition of the "ride along," in which police allow the news media to accompany them on a raid or execution of a search warrant. The length of the oral argument -- hour and 20 minutes -- is only one of the procedural oddities here.
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