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March 11, 2003 |

News Briefs

A roundup of legal news items.
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June 26, 2002 |

Denying an Injury Claim Due to a Positive Drug Test

Imagine the following hypothetical: It is 10 a.m. and an employee limps into his supervisor`s office, bleeding profusely from his hand. The employee informs the supervisor that he accidentally caught his hand in a dangerous piece of machinery at his workstation. The employee is immediately sent to the emergency room, where he receives 15 stitches and is informed that the laceration caused severe nerve damage to his hand. Additionally, per company policy, the employee submits to a post-accident drug screen.
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October 13, 2008 |

Understanding Dramatically Different IP Laws in Asian Countries

For decades, the first foray abroad for most American businesses was Europe, where intellectual property laws and IP protection rights closely parallel the U.S. system. What's more, in Europe, a company can invest in multiple countries and yet usually confront only one set of IP concerns. In short, U.S. and European IP laws are consistent and continue to evolve in meeting the needs of businesses and the challenges of new technologies.
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July 20, 2010 |

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS

Tom Duffy, managing partner of Philadelphia-based Duffy & Partners, will take part in the Atlantic City Airshow next month in a B-25 Mitchell Bomber named "Take Off Time," one of about a dozen war birds from his private collection. Earlier this year he flew the plane in a re-created flyover of the 1942 "Doolittle Raid" at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton, Ohio.
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December 07, 2006 |

President Bush's 'Lost Opportunity' For the 4th Circuit

Chief Judge William Wilkins, who has presided over the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the past four years, sent President George W. Bush a letter last week announcing his plans to step down in June.
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December 12, 2002 |

Drinker Biddle Prepares to Enter Delaware Market

Drinker Biddle & Reath has become the second large Philadelphia-based firm in the past week to announce plans to enter the Wilmington, Del., legal market. But unlike Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, which opened a Wilmington office last week, Drinker Biddle will not seek local lawyers to help get the firm started there. The firm will dispatch veteran bankruptcy partner Warren Pratt, as well as two associates from the home office.
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December 06, 2006 |

The President's 'Lost Opportunity' for the 4th Circuit

Chief Judge William Wilkins, who has presided over the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the past four years, sent President George W. Bush a letter last week announcing his plans to step down in June. Though Wilkins will still hear cases as a senior judge, his quasi-retirement creates a fourth official vacancy on the 15-member bench -- a vacancy rate that's particularly striking for a Republican administration, given the 4th Circuit's reputation as one of the nation's most stalwart conservative courts.
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April 05, 2005 |

Insurance Litigators Make Big Change, Join Reed Smith

Douglas Widin says he believes little is achieved in life without risk. It is this philosophy that has motivated the insurance coverage litigator, along with friend and longtime colleague Jay Levin, to leave behind practices that took a combined 46 years to build to take on a new practice at a firm that was not offering partnership to either.
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June 06, 2007 |

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS

Funeral Arrangements The funeral arrangements for Senior U.S. District Judge Clifford Scott Green, who passed away last week, are as follows: viewing tonight from 6 to 9 p.m. at Oxford Presbyterian Church.
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