This article provides a brief description of the architecture of a standard title insurance policy along with the risks that are covered and not covered.
- April 02, 2015Daniel Goodwin and Robert Beach
Over the last few years, the NLRB has dramatically expanded employee rights to engage in "protected concerted activity" by limiting employers' use of many standard employment policies and practices. Now, the NLRB is implementing sweeping changes to the decades-old representation election process, making it faster and easier for unions to organize the workplace.
April 02, 2015E. Fredrick Preis, Jr., Joseph R. Hugg, Rachael Jeanfreau, and Rachael CoeDiscussion and analysis of a case in which a landlord interfered with a tenant's efforts to find a substitute tenant.
April 02, 2015ljnstaff | Law Journal Newsletters |Can evidence of a health care provider's custom and practice be admissible as habit evidence to prove a fact in malpractice cases? Can such evidence be proof in support of or against the standard of care sufficient to support or oppose a motion for summary judgment for or against a party?
April 02, 2015Alan W. ClarkIn an attempt to raise revenues and simplify the tax code, the House Ways and Means Committee has proposed a draft tax reform plan containing sweeping changes to the Internal Revenue Code (the Code), including a number of major executive compensation and benefits changes. The most significant of those could be the elimination of deferred compensation and nonqualified pensions.
April 02, 2015Lawrence L. BellMicrosoft Word 2013 has some fantastic tools that will allow you to speed up document production and remove some of the manual labor around creating documents by using pre-formatted blocks of text. One of the features that makes all of this magic possible is called Building Blocks, and they are pretty terrific.
April 02, 2015Jeffrey RoachThe year 2015 is here and so is the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) employer "play or pay" mandate, which has been delayed, in total or in part, twice.
April 02, 2015Jennifer S. KiesewetterOnce a stipulation of settlement is entered into or a divorce has been finalized, courts are reluctant to change the terms. If a client complains that he or she was uninformed, made a poor financial decision, or did not properly handle the assets post-divorce, the likelihood of modification or reformation is, at best, slim.
April 02, 2015Carl M. PalatnikLike it or not, the manufacturing industry looks like it will be first in line to feel the potential transformative impact of 3D printing or additive manufacturing. At the same time, changes in intellectual property (IP) law unrelated to 3D printing will impact the disruption in manufacturing.
April 02, 2015Bryan J. VogelThe litigation industry is awash with technology. According to consulting firm Gartner, law firms, corporations and service providers spent almost $2 billion in 2014 buying or licensing e-discovery software, almost none of which existed just 10 years ago. Why? The primary driver has been the explosion in the amount and variety of discoverable data in the world.
April 02, 2015Benjamin Beck and Tobin Dietrich

