Regulation

Attorneys representing property owners are often requested to document arrangements for very short-term and temporary usage of property. "I don't want a lease; just a license agreement will be fine," is the frequent form of the request. Assuming that the client's request is not merely an attempt to keep the legal fees down, is such a request one that makes sense from an owner's point of view? More important, can a careful attorney respond positively?

Courts have historically been divided over several key elements with respect to what a plaintiff must prove to support a claim for medical monitoring. In this article, we review recent decisions regarding medical monitoring and assess whether there has been any consensus among the courts as to whether an actual, present physical injury is required to support a medical monitoring claim and whether class certification is appropriate for medical monitoring claims.

A new U.S. Food and Drug Administration final rule governing clinical trials held in foreign countries will spark painstaking legal review of pharmaceutical companies' protocols for trials.

With only 20 years of U.S. case law on the Convention, any new American case ' especially at the federal appellate level ' attracts the attention and interest of 'Hague' lawyers in this country. Simcox v. Simcox, handed down on Dec. 28, 2007, is no exception.

This article includes discussion of the various approaches that jurisdictions have taken when providing legal protections for breastfeeding employees and establishing legal requirements for employers.

Employers need an attack plan and must begin to think creatively to address every situation that arises in the workplace to protect themselves from increasingly popular FRD claims. Here's how.

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