CHICAGO -- A new study of 54 unresponsive patients who suffered a traumatic brain injury shows that at least five of them had brain activity indicating awareness, intent and in one case, a wish to communicate, reports Romanucci & Blandin, LLC, about a story in the New England Journal of Medicine. ...

The First Two Delaware Decisions. In the past two months, I have reported on decisions by two Delaware bankruptcy judges in the In re Washington Mutual, Inc. case and in In re Premier International Holdings, Inc. (aka, the Six Flags case), taking opposing views on whether Federal Rule of Bankruptcy ...

Dan Immergluck (Georgia State--School of City and Regional Planning) has posted From Global Buck to Local Muck: Capital Markets, Public Policy and Neighborhood Wreckage in the U.S. The abstract: The U.S. subprime crisis was the result of a continual movement...

Legislators here in Massachusetts recently passed a bill that would ban drivers from texting messaging while on the road. The bill will be passed along to the Senate. But an article in the Boston Globe points out that enforcing this ban could be tricky. Since the ban would not outlaw dialing phone n ...

After the 341(a) hearing that a debtor must attend following a San Diego bankruptcy under either Chapter 7 or Chapter 13, there exists a requirement that the debtor attend a financial management course. This is the second of the two courses mandated by the 2005 Bankruptcy Abuse and Consumer Protecti ...

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has accepted the consent disbarment of the former general counsel to Amkor Technology in the wake of his conviction on charges of insider trading. The attorney had been on an interim suspended status. Details about the...

David Payne Law is being recognized in the Missouri Lawyers Weekly Top Verdicts 2009 with the $2 Million settlement of a complex premises liability case involving traumatic head injuries. David Payne Law & Strong-Garner-Bauer represented the Plaintiff. This case settled for policy limits within 5 ...

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One of the things I hated when I worked in an Amlaw 100 firm was the relentless pressure to "sell" the virtues of other practice areas, as if every partner and every practice area was of elite quality.  When the partner or practice area was of elite quality and the client had a need i ...

One of the things I hated when I worked in an Amlaw 100 firm was the relentless pressure to "sell" the virtues of other practice areas, as if every partner and every practice area was of elite quality.  When the partner or practice area was of elite quality and the client had a need i ...