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May 29, 2014
News - Government & Regulatory, Government Relations - Cozen O'Connor Public Strategies, Real Estate
Ken Fisher, of the New York City office’s business law department, was quoted in a New York Law Journal article titled, “Candidates for Brooklyn D.A. Reprise Themes From Primary.” In the article Ken offers his remarks regarding Brooklyn’s D.A., Charles Hynes. Ken is quoted as saying Hynes, “was an innovative prosecutor whose policies helped bring down crime, not just in Brooklyn, but across the country.”
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May 25, 2014
News - White Collar Defense & Investigations
In an article titled ''Pleading guilty could cut defendant's sentence,'' Barry Boss, co-chair of Cozen O'Connor's Criminal Defense & Internal Investigations Practice Group, discusses the factors considered in the federal sentencing guidelines for fraud conviction. In a related article titled "Rewards uneven in mortgage fraud cases,'' Barry discusses the difficulty of trying to harmonize sentencing breaks and the value of 5K1.1 motions for leniency.
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May 21, 2014
Publication - Business
In an article published in The Legal Intelligencer, Hayes Hunt and Arthur Fritzinger, members of Cozen O'Connor's Commercial Litigation Department, discuss Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas Senior Judge R. Stanton Wettick Jr.'s recent ruling in Red Vision Systems v. National Real Estate Information Services, No. 14-0411 (Comm. Pls. Feb. 26, 2014), that the attorney-client privilege does not apply to corporations no longer in business has garnered significant attention, including an appeal and the filing of amicus briefing by the Association of Corporate Counsel.
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May 21, 2014
News - Family Law
Jennifer Brandt, a member of the firm’s Family Law Group, was a guest on Fox 29 news this morning to discuss the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania’s ruling striking down the Pennsylvania statute banning same-sex couples from marrying and barring the recognition of out-of-state marriage of same-sex couples.
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May 20, 2014
News - Subrogation & Recovery
Cozen O'Connor will receive the 2014 SeniorLaw Center Partner of the Year award at the Annual Gala: Honoring Our Older Veterans.
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May 20, 2014
Publication - Intellectual Property, Trademark & Copyright
Camille Miller, co-chair of the Intellectual Property Department, discusses the rise in counterfeit sellers using the Internet and social media to generate web traffic and divert customers to rogue e-commerce websites to sell counterfeit goods.
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May 20, 2014
Publication - Family Law
We all heard the news about George Clooney’s engagement. After holding out for so long, he is now finally getting married. However, he has a lot to lose in the event of a divorce. A prenuptial agreement is a must. See Jen Brandt's recent article on Yourtango.com discussing a proposed prenup for George.
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May 19, 2014
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Stephen Halbeisen, Mark Utke and Michael Melusky discussed the various possibilities that could have come from the subzero temperatures during the January Freeze and the results that come from such extreme temperatures.
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May 19, 2014
Publication - Intellectual Property
Chad Stouffer and Aaron Lukas, associates in Cozen O'Connor's Intellectual Property Department, discuss various e-discovery solutions and how to implement a cost-effective discovery strategy.
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May 19, 2014
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Aaron Krauss, member of the Philadelphia office’s litigation department, wrote an article for americanbar.org, detailing the difficulties of safeguarding trade secrets in the modern era, and in the event that a client’s trade secrets are exposed, how to defend them in court.
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May 19, 2014
Publication - Subrogation & Recovery
Howard Maycon, managing partner of Cozen O’Connor’s Los Angeles office and co-chair of the West Region’s Subrogation and Recovery Department, discusses the repercussions and the impact on subrogation through the Internet of Things, which is the communication among your things and/or by your things to other machines, devices, and data centers. The article titled, “Science Fiction as Reality: The Internet of Things and its Impact on Subrogation” was published in the May 2014 Claims Magazine.
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May 16, 2014
Press Release
Evan Caplan and Jim Mulcahy have been named Volunteers of the Month by Philadelphia VIP.
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May 16, 2014
News - Insurance Coverage - Insurance
Debbie Minkoff Discusses 5 Tips for Nailing Reservation of Rights Letters in Law360. Once insurers have decided they will defend policyholders provisionally while reserving the right to challenge coverage down the road, they should realize the importance of crafting a proper letter communicating that decision to their insureds. Courts could hold that insurers have waived their coverage defenses if they are not careful with their approach in reservation of rights letters, said Deborah Minkoff, the vice chair of Cozen O'Connor's insurance department. To read the article, click here.
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May 15, 2014
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Joe Rich and David Brisco address the Florida Information Protection Act of 2014 which established tough new notification and requirements for businesses and governmental entities in the Cozen O'Connor Cyber Law Monitor blog.
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May 15, 2014
News - Business, Corporate
Steve Silton, of the Corporate Practice Group, was recently quoted on MinnPost.com in an article titled, "Kline on College Sports: Unions Not the Answer." The article examines unions among student-athletes and the NCAA as college administrators and legal experts prepare to convene on Capitol Hill to warn Rep. Kline and his Education and the Workforce committee against the ill effects of unionized college athletes.
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May 14, 2014
News - Family Law
Jennifer Brandt, a member of the firm's Family Law Department, was a guest on Fox News Channel's America's Newsroom this morning to discuss Casey Kasem's daughter's claims that he has been kidnapped.
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May 14, 2014
Publication - Bankruptcy, Insolvency & Restructuring, Business
Can a party that retains its own counsel be liable to pay a fee to another party's counsel or to class counsel? The answer, according to the recent Court of Chancery opinion in Smith, Katzenstein & Jenkins v. Fidelity Management & Research, C.A. No. 8066-VCL (Del. Ch. April 16, 2014), is a resounding yes. The court rejected the defendants' "own counsel" defense in an action to recover attorney fees and costs for benefits conferred as a result of the plaintiffs' prosecution and settlement of a class action as contrary to longstanding Delaware precedent dealing with shared causation in the award of fees and expenses when an attorney creates a common fund for, or confers a common benefit upon, a readily ascertainable group.
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May 12, 2014
Press Release - Insurance Coverage - Insurance
With the recent addition of Kevin P. Kamraczewski as a member, Cozen O’Connor has significantly added to the strength of its Global Insurance Group and its Chicago office, where he will be resident. Mr. Kamraczewski was formerly a partner at Dentons.
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May 12, 2014
News - Securities Litigation & SEC Enforcement
Cozen O’Connor litigators Fred Jacoby and Joseph Dever recently obtained a complete victory in a $2 million FINRA securities arbitration in New York.
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May 12, 2014
Publication - Subrogation & Recovery
It can be frustrating when pursuit of a products liability case is not economically feasible due to the small dollar value of the claim. This is especially true with repetitive failure claims – when the same type of product fails over and over again. However, if repetitive failure claims can be identified, and a scientifically viable theory of the failure can be deduced, costs can be shared and claims can potentially be bundled.
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