<b><i>Practice Tip:</b></i> 20 Surprisingly Simple Ways To Spruce Up Your Web Site
Have you been looking at your Web site thinking it's time for a change? Want to make sure you are getting the most out of your Web site investment? Here are 20 simple ways you can spruce up and enhance your site, without breaking the bank in the process.
The Kensington Wi-Fi Finder: Now You Find It, Now You Don't!
This little device would seem to come in handy in finding the hot spot zones without the necessity of taking out our laptops and powering up to see if we can connect. But when put to the test, it seems that Kensington has a few more hours of development in its schedule to make this thing give us a proper result!
Caught on Tape: The Next Frontier In Electronic Discovery
Voice-mail has traditionally been the most personalized and candid form of communication in business. Even with the proliferation of e-mail and other electronic documents, voice mail continues to have a greater impact on juries and judges. <br>While voice mail has always been subject to discovery and investigation, the process for electronically saving voice mail and filtering through the saved messages has been spotty and very time consuming. All of this is about to change.
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Learn New Tricks: Autocoding Technology is Here and Now
If a technical application existed that coded litigation documents at a fraction of the time and cost, would you use it? As new technologies emerge, Winston & Strawn, a 150 year-old firm with nearly 900 attorneys and multiple offices worldwide, asks this question time and again. As litigation support project manager at the Washington, DC office, my latest conclusion is that autocoding is an important piece of litigation technology and the time has come.
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Case Briefing
The latest rulings of importance to you and your practice.
California's Prop 65 Trumped By FDA, But On Narrow Grounds
The truth is apparently no defense for the state when it comes to issuing warning labels for nicotine gums and patches. Recently, the California Supreme Court unanimously ruled in <i>Dowhal v. SmithKline Beecham Consumer Healthcare</i>, 04 C.D.O.S. 3259 that federal regulations trump state statutes when it comes to putting pregnant women on alert about the possible dangers of Nicorette' and other nicotine-replacement therapies -- even if the state warnings are legitimate. "Whether a label is potentially misleading or incomprehensible is essentially a judgment of how the consumer will respond to the language of the label," Justice Joyce Kennard wrote. "A truthful warning of an uncertain or remote danger may mislead the consumer into misjudging the dangers stemming from the use of the product, and consequently making a medically unwise decision."
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Pharmaceutical Benefits Managers Get Reprieve in Maine
In a decision issued March 9 in the case of <i>Pharmaceutical Care Management Ass'n v. Rowe</i>, No. 03-153-B-W, 2004 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 3758 (D. Maine 3/9/04), U.S. District Judge John A. Woodcock Jr. delayed enforcement of a novel Maine law whose intent is to make the business practices of companies that negotiate drug prices on behalf of health plans more transparent. The preliminary injunction has at least temporarily prevented the state of Maine from implementing Maine's 2003 "Act to Protect Against Unfair Prescription Drug Practices (M.R.S.A. ' 2699), known as UPDPA, against pharmaceutical benefits managers (PBMs).
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News from the FDA
The most recent news from the agency.
The 'New Normal': SARS Liability Implications
Without disease and illness, there would be no need for life science companies or the products that they develop. Some modern maladies and ailments present more challenges than opportunities for biotech and medical device firms. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and comparable pathogens present medical device and life science manufacturers with new and daunting risks. One such peril lies in the realm of product liability.
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The Bankruptcy Hotline
Recent rulings of importance to you and your practice.
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