What's in a name? Apparently nothing! Over the past several months, we have seen many top rainmakers leave firms that are considered to be the "creme de la creme" of the profession for "greener" pastures and assurances that they can continue to practice law, keep their clients and remain viable. There is no surprise to this trend that can be summed us as follows: Money talks and, in some cases, mandatory retirement walks. <br>What makes this trend all the more interesting is the fact that coupled with these departures is a sense that the firms from which the partners are leaving seem to be oblivious to the obvious: You, and you know who you are, have become irrelevant and for lack of better terminology ' You are a dinosaur!

For information about vaccines, visit the World Health Organization Web site, <i>www.who.int/immunization/en/</i>. The goal of the World Health Organization ("WHO"), the United Nations specialized agency for health established in 1948, is the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health. Health is defined in WHO's constitution as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

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It is not pleasant to contemplate suing an expert hired to testify for your client. Nevertheless, an attorney's cautious and prudent behavior may be enhanced and professional anguish minimized by frank consideration of the unpleasant possibilities.

On April 12, 1955, Thomas Francis stood on a podium at the University of Michigan and announced that Jonas Salk's polio vaccine was safe and effective. At last, Americans would be freed from the bonds of polio, a disease that routinely crippled as many as 50,000 children every year. However, triumph quickly turned to tragedy.

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Document retention, and the host of related e-discovery issues, have been front and center for product liability attorneys for a number of years. Nevertheless, even with the best document retention program and the most sophisticated e-discovery system, companies and their attorneys are still going to have to deal with the documents themselves. As many trial lawyers have learned, it can take only one bad document to bring down the house. With respect to the increased use of e-mails as evidence in litigation, companies need to educate their employees on what constitutes appropriate online communication. We recommend that companies focus on training their employees to 'think twice and click once.'

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In the pharmaceutical industry, due to all types of business pressures and constraints, it is not atypical for a company to behave reactively and in triage-mode, rather than considering proactive steps that it can take in the compliance arena. In 2005, the Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") issued three final guidance documents to help focus the industry and encourage companies to consider more thoughtfully and thoroughly the issues of quality risk assessment, minimization, and management collectively.

While we used to copy millions of pages a month and send out hundreds of overnight mail packages a day, current copying rates have dropped to a few hundred thousand pages, replaced by thousands of e-mails per day and "scan to PDF and print" jobs totaling millions of pages. With these advances in technology have come heightened client expectations to complete work in minutes or hours, rather than days. This means our equipment has to be very reliable and easy to use, allowing the attorneys to spend their available time focused on legal work, not on mechanical problems with scanners, copiers and printers.