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January 03, 2003 |

$1.8M Legal Malpractice Verdict Reversed

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a malpractice verdict of nearly $1.8 million against Manhattan lawyer Thomas E. Stiles and his firm. A lower court had granted summary judgment on the grounds that Stiles failed to perfect an appeal concerning jurisdiction in a personal injury case. But the 2nd Circuit found that the client would have clearly lost the jurisdictional challenge in New York.
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October 14, 2004 |

N.Y. Firm Files Two More Vioxx Suits, Sees More on the Way

One day after Merck & Co. announced the recall of its anti-inflammatory drug Vioxx, a prominent Long Island plaintiffs lawyer filed two products liability lawsuits against the drug company in the Nassau County Supreme Court.
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July 29, 2004 |

Insurer Must Pay for Anguish to Son Who Saw His Father Killed

An Albany, N.Y. appellate panel has held that a man who saw his father hit and killed by an automobile is entitled to recover under the "zone-of-danger" doctrine, whereby insurers can be liable for injuries -- including mental anguish -- to non-insureds who are in the immediate area of an accident involving someone who is injured. Though the policy at issue was written to avoid such liability, the court found that any ambiguity must be resolved to benefit the consumer.
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July 21, 2003 |

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Announcements about lawyers, firms and judges
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October 22, 2008 |

No Scaffold Law Protection for Volunteer

5 minute read
June 23, 2003 |

Plaintiffs and Amici Seek to Burst Secrecy Bubble in Suit Against Prudential

Confidentiality clauses in labor arbitration agreements are common, especially for a corporation eager to keep the lid on disgruntled employees' complaints or to protect trade secrets. But should the secrecy remain when an employee goes further and sues on grounds that the arbitration process itself was a fraud perpetuated by the workers' own lawyers and the company?
5 minute read
September 09, 2003 |

Trademarks and Insurance

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December 19, 2005 |

Reckoning With Metadata

Several organizations, including the Democratic National Committee and the United Nations, have permitted inadvertent disclosure of private information due to a lack of awareness or disregard of metadata. Problems generally occur when an attorney communicates with a client's adversaries or third parties, or when disclosing a client's underlying documents and communications in the course of litigation. You may never have given metadata any thought but beware: It can harm your firm in ways you never imagined.
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September 19, 2011 |

Lawyers Who Lead By Example

In this Special Section, the New York Law Journal honors the firms and attorneys who have stepped in to fill the legal needs of low-income New Yorkers. We profile litigators and transactional lawyers, three of whom are "retired"; one government attorney; one business development professional; two law firms and two bar associations, all of whom demonstrate the ideal that practicing law is a privilege, not a right, and that lawyers have an obligation to give back.
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