Between 2009 and 2011, there were 23.2 million college students in the U.S. In 2013, the Census Bureau recorded that 25% resided off-campus. What does that mean for insurers of these properties?
October 02, 2014Mary-Pat Cormier and Jennifer Garner
Proponents of Legal Project Management (LPM), Legal Process Improvement (LPI) and other approaches for driving greater efficiency and value into legal service delivery get a lot of blow-back. One of the more common gripes we hear is that "LPM encourages corner-cutting." Is this true?
October 02, 2014Pamela Woldow and Doug RichardsonIn Alice Corporation v. CLS Bank International, the U.S. Supreme Court issued another in a line of cases dealing with the issue of the patentability of software inventions. Based on this opinion, one thing remains clear: The issue is far from definitively decided.
October 02, 2014A. Antony PfefferInter-company indemnification agreements in underlying contracts often require not only the insured's indemnification of the would-be additional insured, but also that the indemnifying company secure CGL coverage, sometimes written as coverage that is "not less than" a certain amount.
October 02, 2014Donald R. McMinn and John M. McNultyIn the first half of 2014, at least 96 significant data breaches were reported, compromising more than 2.2 million records. Of these breaches, at least 46 involved records that may have contained Social Security Numbers (SSNs). What the affected businesses may not know is that the mere collection of SSNs may have put them in violation of state laws, in addition to the liability they may now face for having failed to protect the SSN information.
October 02, 2014Nicole Pszczolkowski and L. Elise DieterichShouldn't we be more deliberate and questioning about the assumptions we make about clients ' in order to ensure that we don't end up with self-inflicted client relations issues? An in-depth discussion.
October 02, 2014Bruce HeintzWhen a patient takes a medication that does not at first appear to harm him but that could cause later-developing consequences, or when a medical error is made that causes no immediately measurable harm but that could lead to future injury, is a medical monitoring remedy available? The following article discusses one state high court's recent analysis of the issue.
October 02, 2014Diane Fleming Averell and Pamela R. KaplanFranchisor's Control over System Uniformity Insufficient to Show Vicarious Liability
Printed Names Without Signatures Satisfy Requirement That Personal Guaranty Be SignedOctober 02, 2014Cynthia M. Klaus and Susan E. TegtAnalysis of recent news of interest to you and your practice.
October 02, 2014ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |Even though lawyer management in most mid-size firms recognize the importance of developing and implementing principles of practice management as a means to insure the high quality service to clients and to improve profitability, the extent to which practice management may be implemented varies greatly from firm to firm.
October 02, 2014Joel A. Rose