• March 13, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Luzerne Businessman Gets Third Trial in Defamation Case

    More than four years after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court vacated a $3.5 million verdict issued in favor of Luzerne County businessman Thomas A. Joseph Sr. and his son, on the grounds of jud

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  • March 12, 2014 | Corporate Counsel

    'Daimler' and US Jurisdiction Over Foreign Corporations

    For many lawyers, the words “personal jurisdiction” do little more than invoke distant memories of a civil procedure course in law school, or perhaps a tortured essay question on

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  • March 12, 2014 | Delaware Business Court Insider

    Del. Supreme Court Revives Bank's Claim for Unpaid Interest

    The Delaware Supreme Court has revived a lawsuit initiated by RBC Capital Markets against a trust that it claims failed to pay owed interest. Although the trial court concluded that t

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  • International Business Machines Corp. v. Simonson, 8089/2010

    Publication Date: 2014-03-11
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    Court: Supreme Court, Westchester County
    Judge: Justice Francesca Connolly
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Attorneys for the plaintiff: Mitchell G. Mandell, Esq., Reena S. Liebling, Esq., White and Williams, LLP, New York, NY.
    for defendant: Attorneys for the defendant: Marc A. Lebotwitz, Esq., Keith M. Getz, Esq., Lebowitz Law Office, LLC, New York, NY.

    Case Number: 8089/2010

    Cite as: International Business Machines Corp. v. Simonson, 8089/2010, NYLJ 1202646009996, at *1 (Sup., WE, Decided February 27, 2014)

  • March 11, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Violating Rule 1925 Conciseness Is Unwise, but Not a Waiver

    Aside from the rare legal all-star, in position to pick and choose cases, the rest of us inevitably have to confront losing. After all, it has been said that only lawyers who are not trusted

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  • March 6, 2014 | National Law Journal

    GSK to Face Trial Over Death of Reed Smith Partner

    Pharmaceutical firm GlaxoSmithKline USA will face trial over claims that its failure to warn about the risks of suicide in adults who take the antidepressant Paxil caused the death of a form

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  • March 6, 2014 | New Jersey Law Journal

    New Partners Yearbook 2014

    For the first time in four years, new partnerships took a slide at New Jersey law firms, down to a level not seen since the aftermath of the 2008-09 recession. There are 109 partners at 48 f

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  • Southern LNG Inc. v. MacGinnitie

    Publication Date: 2014-03-06
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lisa F. Stuckey, Herbert H. Gray III, Brian J. Morrissey, and William J. Seigler III Ragsdale, Beals, Seigler, Patterson & Gray LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, William W. Banks Jr., Warren R. Calvert, Senior Assistant Attorneys General, and Alex F. Sponseller, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S13A1486

    On remand, the trial court must address questions regarding whether county tax appeals constitute an adequate alternative remedy precluding the plaintiff's mandamus claim seeking to compel the State

  • Reeves v. State

    Publication Date: 2014-03-06
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David J. Walker, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Karl D. Cooke Jr., District Attorney, Nancy S. Malcor, Dorothy V. Hull, Assistant District Attorneys, Macon, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Rochelle W. Gordon, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S13A1524

    The trial court properly admitted evidence of a similar transaction, wherein the defendant pled guilty to attempted rape, to show his course of conduct and bent of mind in his trial for felony murde

  • February 27, 2014 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Judge Finds Injury Occurs as Soon as Asbestos Is Inhaled

    An Allegheny County, Pa., trial judge has ruled in a case of first impression that, for insurance coverage purposes, an injury occurs on the date of a plaintiff's first exposure to asbestos,

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