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Westlaw Journals weekly round-up

May 1, 2013 By: Melissa Sachs

The new Westlaw Journals blog brings you litigation headlines in over 30 substantive areas of law.  Here are some highlights from the past week:

Westlaw Topical Highlights: Labor and Employment, May 1, 2013

May 1, 2013 By: Casey Hall

Westlaw Topical Highlights for Labor and Employment provides summaries of significant federal and state judicial decisions and legislative and administrative activities affecting

The importance of ensuring that potential clients can contact you

May 1, 2013 By: Jeremy Byellin

In securing client referrals, one of the simplest, yet most important, things you can do is to ensure that potential clients have a reliable means of contacting you.

A “quasi-artificial” person

May 1, 2013 By: Westlaw Insider

To maintain an action, a plaintiff must be a legal entity that is either a natural person, …

Independent Thinking: Using Your Passions to Distinguish Your Practice

Apr 30, 2013 By: Shahrina Ankhi-Krol

The decision to start my own law practice was not an easy one. It was daunting, actually. Not only because I would

Preventing Digital Sexual Harassment in the Workplace (Part 2 of 5)

Apr 30, 2013 By: Daniel Garrie

Although an employer cannot observe or control all the actions of its employees in the physical workplace, the employer can prevent sexual harassment in the digital workplace through cost-effective technology to monitor the content of digital communication.

Fatal MVA in Indiana Results in $18.5M Verdict for Wrongful Death Claims

Apr 30, 2013 By: Jury Verdicts

Hannah, personal representative of Hannah, Estate of v. Celadon Trucking Services Inc.; Johnson; Hills (Ind. Super. Ct.) Two Airline Pilots Die in

“Who, what, when, where, and how”

Apr 30, 2013 By: Westlaw Insider

A plaintiff averring securities fraud claims must specify the who, what, when, where, and how: …

Who Controls the Playbook? Electronic Discovery in League Sports (Part 1 of 4)

Apr 29, 2013 By: Daniel Garrie

An important feature of professional sports is the interdependence between the player, the team, and the league. Take, for example, the NFL. 

A meditation on the music industry’s apparently relaxed attitude toward copyright

Apr 29, 2013 By: Will Ashenmacher

All of the different cases of one artist’s song lifting the music right out of the song of another artist makes you wonder when inspiration becomes legally impermissible imitation.

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