At a recent continuing legal education program in Wisconsin members of the plaintiff and defense civil trial bar raised their concerns over the Rules governing CMS set-aside arrangements. While both sides recognized the need to reimburse Medicare, the methods being utilized by CMS to obtain reimburs ...

Comprehensive New York foreclosure legislation provides additional critical protections for New York State homeowners, tenants and neighborhoods in the wake of the ongoing foreclosure crisis. The legislation builds upon the 2008 landmark sub-prime lending reform law protecting homeowners currently ...

As she walked toward the supervisor's office, Tyson Foods employee Gwendolyn Miles says she slipped on a wet floor and fell. Miles claims a leak in the roof caused the floor to become a hazardous condition. Miles filed a personal injury lawsuit against Tyson Foods Inc. on Feb. 2 in the Marshall Div ...

Good Morning!  Today is Tuesday, February 9, and here’s your daily round up… A Senate report says that attorney-client accounts are being used to circumvent money laundering laws… King & Spalding picked up three litigators from Orrick… Winston & Strawn added three in ...

This installment of the New Jersey Legal Update podcast is an interview with Adam J. Siegelheim, member of Stark & Stark's Franchise group, and Paul Rocchio, Director of Development & Member Services for the International Franchise Association, at the International Franchise Association's 20 ...

L’Accord commercial anti-contrefaçon (ACAC), objet de négociations secrètes, est aujourd’hui au centre des débats internationaux sur le droit d’auteur. Tel est aussi le cas d’un potentiel nouveau traité international sur l’accès pour les déficients visuels aux livres en ligne, qui s’inscrit dans le ...

According to the BBC, the signs warn drivers to be more aware of motorcyclists and follow a campaign by friends and relatives of motorcyclist David Loudon who died in a crash in February 2008. Campaigners said that some drivers perform dangerous U-turns, without thinking about motorbikes. Steve Mear ...

In my previous post I pointed to an excellent analysis of liberal condescension and gave a couple of examples of it (and discussed a fabulous example of it here). This condescension, as many others have pointed out, is in large part a product of liberals’ faith in their superior morality and their s ...

Shielding jurors from the outside influences so that they can maintain their independence and impartiality has always been a challenge.  But the rise of electronic media and social networking has added new hurdles.  Jurors have been unable to resist the temptation to Google, tweet and blog about the ...

I have a confession to make: Im incredibly lazy. If you follow me around the intertubes this may surprise you: I post daily on my website, contribute robustly on three forums, and twitter all the live long day. So how do I do it? My key to action: no-ones too lazy to do something fun. So how do you ...