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April 04, 2001 |

Red Cross Fends Off 'Fear of HIV' Suit

Although the Red Cross conceded it had provided blood from a donor it should have rejected as a high risk for HIV, it won a summary judgment in a Georgia suit alleging negligence and infliction of emotional distress. The plaintiff was required to show the blood had in fact exposed her to HIV, even though the transfusion was potentially tainted with Group O HIV, which cannot be detected by current tests.
4 minute read
July 26, 2002 |

Georgia Supreme Court to Decide Blood Bank, Med-Mal Issues

The Georgia Supreme Court has taken up two malpractice matters that could affect the practice of medicine. The court has agreed to settle a dispute over a plaintiff's burden of proof in medical malpractice cases and also will decide whether the American Red Cross can be held liable for distributing blood that did not conform to its HIV-screening procedures.
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November 30, 2010 |

Law Firms Identified by Corporate Clients

The following is a list of law firms identified by corporate clients as reported in Pennsylvania as reported in the 2010 edition of PaLAW magazine.
7 minute read
February 23, 2010 |

Phila. Jury Awards $9.5 Mil. in HRT Trial

Another Philadelphia jury has decided that drugmaker Wyeth should be punished with punitive damages for the warnings provided to a plaintiff and her doctor over the risk of breast cancer from Wyeth's hormonal drug Prempro.
4 minute read
November 30, 2010 |

Largest Firms by City (Harrisburg)

The following is a list of the largest law firms in the city of Harrisburg ranked by the number of full-time attorneys asreported in the 2010 edition of PaLAW magazine.
3 minute read
May 08, 2000 |

Scholar Questions City Traffic Court Constitutionality

Atlanta's busy Traffic Court could be in deep trouble. In fact, the very existence of the court may be unconstitutional, according to a new legal analysis just published in the Georgia State University Law Review. The author, Edward C. Brewer III, assistant professor at the Salmon P. Chase College of Law at Northern Kentucky University, contends all non-traffic misdemeanor convictions since 1988 and possibly all convictions obtained in City Court since 1996 are void.
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January 29, 2013 |

Survey Says Outliers Helped Push Large Law Firm Revenue Up 5 Percent in 2012

An early look at how some of the nation's largest law firms fared financially last year finds that despite a range of results, the industry as a whole enjoyed its biggest year-over-year gains since 2008, according to a survey by Wells Fargo Private Bank's Legal Specialty Group.
4 minute read
October 22, 2009 |

Blue-Ribbon Commission Urges Repeal of Military's Ban on Sodomy

A military law commission is calling for the end of the U.S. armed services' decades-old sodomy prohibition, finding the ban invites arbitrary enforcement and may be unconstitutional. In a report released Tuesday, the Commission on Military Justice -- a panel of former judges, law professors and military experts -- called the ban on consensual sodomy unnecessary and recommended its repeal. The commission was created in January by the National Institute of Military Justice and the American Bar Association.
3 minute read
July 31, 2008 |

Associates Survey 2008

To find out how Midlevel associates rate their firms as workplaces, our annual midlevel survey examined 12 areas that contribute to job satisfaction. They include relations with partners and other associates, the interest and satisfaction level asso-ciates have in their work, training and guidance, policy on billables, management openness about firm strategies and partnership chances, the firm?s attitude toward pro bono work, compensation and benefits, and the respondents? inclination to stay at their firm for at least two more years. Respondents graded their firms on a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being the highest score. On this chart, firms with ten or more responses are ranked by their averages on those questions. Averages include responses from all participating of-fices. For definitions of national and international firms, and for other details, see our methodology
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November 30, 2010 |

Largest PA Public Corporations

The following is a list of the largest public corporations in Pennsylvania as reported in the 2010 edition of PaLAW magazine.
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