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01/26/11 OIG Exclusions and Individual Accountability: Key Developments for Executives in 2010 Will Have a Lasting Impact in 2011 and Beyond, BNA's Health Care Fraud Report

Outside Publication | Article
Margaret Rodgers Schmidt, Howard Young

2008 Panelist, “Trying a Patent Case In The Southern District of New York," 2008 ABA Annual Meeting

Presentation | Speech
Asheesh Puri

11/30/10 Setting the Stage - Early Case Assessment, presented at a Pennsylvania Bar Institute CLE Event on the Basics of EDD

Presentation | Speech
Scott Milner

11/09/10 Diversity Management in Multiple Offices, served as a panelist at the Association of Law Firm Diversity Professionals 2010 Annual Fall Conference

Presentation | Speech
Ara Tucker

November 2010 Fundamentals of Construction Contracts: Understanding the Issues - Pennsylvania, hosted by Lorman Education Services

Presentation | Speech
Michael Libor

10/12/10 Cash Is King in Lease Negotiations, The Legal Intelligencer

Outside Publication | Article
Eric Stern

08/25/10 Pennsylvania Supreme Court: General Liability Insurers Have No Right to “Recoup” Defense Costs from Their Insureds

LawFlash/Client Alert | Insurance Recovery LawFlash
Insurance Recovery Practice

On August 17, a unanimous Pennsylvania Supreme Court handed down a decision important not only for Pennsylvania, but potentially for many other states as well. In American and Foreign Insurance Company v. J... more

07/30/10 Third Circuit Clarifies Availability of Preliminary Injunction to Prevent Former Employee from Working for a Competitor

LawFlash/Client Alert | Labor and Employment LawFlash
Labor and Employment Practice

On July 27, in Bimbo Bakeries USA, Inc. v. Botticella , [1] the Third Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the issuance of a preliminary injunction preventing th... more

07/19/10 Only Client-to-Attorney Communications Protected Pending Pennsylvania Supreme Court Review of Statutory Attorney-Client Privilege

LawFlash/Client Alert | Litigation LawFlash
Litigation Practice

In a case of interest to companies undergoing or pursuing litigation in Pennsylvania state court, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has agreed to tackle again the issue of whether the attorney-client privilege protects ... more

03/26/10 Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Holds “8 and 80” Overtime Formula Violates State Minimum Wage Law

LawFlash/Client Alert | Labor and Employment LawFlash
Labor and Employment Practice

Hospitals, nursing homes, and similar employers throughout the country routinely pay their employees pursuant to an "8 and 80" overtime rule, under which employees are paid overtime for all hours worked in excess of eig... more

03/09/10 Pennsylvania Supreme Court Leaves in Limbo Applicability of Attorney-Client Privilege to Communications from Attorney to Client

LawFlash/Client Alert | Litigation LawFlash
Litigation Practice

On January 29, an evenly split Supreme Court of Pennsylvania left standing the state Superior Court's controversial 2007 decision in Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company v. Fleming , which denied protection under... more

10/21/09 Pennsylvania Offers Two Major Funding Opportunities for Solar Energy Projects, Equipment, and Research

LawFlash/Client Alert | Energy LawFlash
Energy Practice

Pennsylvania is currently offering two different funding opportunities to support the development and use of solar energy and expansion of solar energy-related industries. The first opportunity, the Solar Energ... more

09/16/09 Pennsylvania House Passes New Environmental and Energy Building Standards Act

LawFlash/Client Alert | Real Estate LawFlash
Jeannine Bishop, Meredith Rettaliata

The Pennsylvania House of Representatives is steering Pennsylvania toward achieving "green" standards, visible in the recent passing of a bill that will require certain state-funded "major facility projects" to comply w... more

08/04/09 Pennsylvania Adopts Mini-COBRA Requirements for Small Employers with Insured Medical, Hospital, or Surgical Benefits

LawFlash/Client Alert | Employee Benefits LawFlash
Employee Benefits Practice

Background

Federal COBRA rules only apply to employers with 20 or more employees. However, 39 states and the District of Columbia have various mini-COBRA rules in their state insurance codes that apply ... more

06/24/09 Anticorruption Compliance for the Life Sciences Industry: Case Studies and Practical Tips Webinar

Presentation | Webinar
Jürgen Beninca, Anthony Warnock-Smith, Eric Sitarchuk

The life sciences industry has increasingly expanded its manufacturing operations and scientific studies to countries outside of Western Europe and North America. At the same time, enforcement authorities around the globe are i... more

06/19/09 Pennsylvania Supreme Court Dismisses Appeal in Bugosh, Postpones Addressing Whether to Adopt Restatement (Third) of Torts Standard

LawFlash/Client Alert | Litigation LawFlash
John Lavelle, Jr.

Those who had awaited the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's ruling in Bugosh v. I.U. North America Inc ., No. 7 WAP 2008, to answer whether the court would adopt Section 2 of the Restatement (Third) of Torts in place... more

05/21/09 An Update on Regulatory Issues, presented at the 7th Annual PMAR Conference, Philadelphia

Presentation | Speech
Steven Stone

05/18/09 Earnings and Profits of Foreign Subsidiaries, presented as an ATLAS Tax Seminar, Philadelphia

Presentation | Speech
Wendy Unglaub, Gary Wilcox, Barton Bassett

03/11/09 Outsourcing: A Critical Business Strategy for Tough Economic Times, presented at a Morgan Lewis Seminar, Philadelphia

Presentation | Speech
Barbara Melby

03/10/09 Pennsylvania Supreme Court Determines that Preliquidation Payments Made to Policyholders Do Not Constitute Voidable Preferences Under the Pennsylvania Insurance Liquidation Statute

LawFlash/Client Alert | Insurance Recovery LawFlash
Jason Komorsky, David Harbaugh

On February 23, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania ruled on an important insurance coverage question—one that has been addressed infrequently by courts throughout the country: Can the liquidator of an inso... more