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Businesses Damaged by Sandy Face Knotty Insurance Issues
As businesses and property owners assess damage from Superstorm Sandy, lawyers who have been fielding calls from insurers and policyholders say they are seeing areas of potential conflict and while most disputes could be settled out of court, they predict some lengthy and substantial litigation.Contract Lets Lawyer Beat Arbitration
East Bay attorney Laurence Padway says a boilerplate contract clause let him get his client out of arbitration and into a settlement worth nearly $2 million.Hot seat gets hotter for expert witnesses
It's a tough time to be an expert witness. Courts are increasingly ordering expert witnesses to disclose financial information or risk having their testimony struck from a case. Also, a growing number of courts have permitted parties to sue their own experts for negligent testimony in recent years, holding that expert witnesses should not be immune from liability from their own clients.The Churn: Lateral Moves and Promotions in The Am Law 200
Skadden, Arps, Slate Meagher & Flom recruits SanDisk Corporation's chief legal officer to its Palo Alto office; a senior partner in Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe's China offices in San Francisco heads to Asian Development Bank; and Sidley Austin gains a longtime veteran with the Food and Drug Administration. The Churn is constant. Please send all announcements to [email protected].Legal Aid faces another tough year for firm fundraising
Atlanta Legal Aid Society's annual fundraising campaign is a bellwether of the economy. The fundraising target, $1.6 million, has not increased since 2008, and the group has again deferred raising the contribution-per-attorney for pacesetter firms, which make a donation for every lawyer in their Atlanta office.Last year, the per-attorney contribution was slated to increase from $400 to $500, but Atlanta Legal Aid postponed the increase.Creating a Culture of Compliance
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