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April 01, 2008
Publication - Construction Law, Electronic Discovery & Practice Advisory Services - Real Estate & Construction
The Electronic Paper Chase: What You Don’t Save Can Hurt You - Constructor - Over the past decade, an increasing amount of business is being conducted electronically, much of it by e-mail. It's estimated that there are more than one billion business e -mails created in the U.S. each day. Less than 20% of these are ever printed, and 95% or more of all new
documents are stored electronically. Some formal structure was needed to govern this volume of data within the litigation context.
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April 01, 2008
Publication - Insurance Coverage
The Need For Transparency Between the Tort System and Section 524(g) Asbestos Trusts - Norton Journal of Bankruptcy Law and Practice - Since 2000, dozens of companies have sought to use the trust provisions of §524(g) of the Bankruptcy Code to globally resolve their
asbestos liabilities.1 At this point, the litigation has forced over 85 employers into bankruptcy,2 “including nearly all major manufacturers of asbestos-containing products”3—the companies that historically were considered to be the most culpable by reason of the types of products that they sold
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April 01, 2008
Publication - Insurance Coverage
New Approach to Policy Interpretation - The Insurance Coverage Law Bulletin - Once upon a time, the relationship between insurer and insured was one of contract and was governed by the terms and conditions of the policy. Even after common law modifications
of this common law relationship and legislative regulation of the parties’ consensual relationship, it still is fundamentally based on agreement of the parties.
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April 01, 2008
Press Release - Aviation, Aviation Litigation
Cozen O’Connor Member Evan Caplan Honored by Legal Clinic for the Disabled
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April 01, 2008
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I’ve been an environmental lawyer since 1990. I graduated from George Washington University School of Law that year and accepted an honors position at the EPA, where I worked in the enforcement program until 1995. Since that time I’ve been in private practice working on a variety of different environmental law matters, including environmental litigation, cleanup obligations, compliance counseling with
respect to environmental regulatory requirements and, most recently, climate
change counseling, which involves helping companies position themselves in the
rapidly evolving climate change legal regime and address the risks and opportunities
presented by climate change.
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April 01, 2008
Publication - Insurance Coverage, Products Liability
A Look at a Key Illinois Decision - The Insurance Coverage Law Bulletin - An Illinois appellate court recently held that a subcontractor’s insurer wrongfully rejected a general contractor’s tender of defense for a suit
filed by the subcontractor’s employee. State Automobile Mut. Ins. Co. v. Habitat Constr. Co., __Ill.App.3d__, 875 N.E.2d 1159 (1st Dist. 2007).
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April 01, 2008
Publication - Labor & Employment
Study on the Regulatory Prohibition of Sexual Harassment in American Workplace - Journal of China Women's University -
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April 01, 2008
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Saving Money by Saving Money - Risk & Insurance -
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April 01, 2008
Publication - Environmental Regulatory & Due Diligence
Climate Change: The Future Is Upon Us - The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel - The Editor interviews Peter J. Fontaine, Co-Chair, Climate Change Practice Area, Cozen O’Connor.
Editor: Mr. Fontaine, would you tell us something about your professional experience?
Fontaine: I’ve been an environmental lawyer since 1990. I graduated from George Washington University School of Law that year and accepted an honors position at the EPA, where I worked in
the enforcement program until 1995.
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March 31, 2008
Press Release - White Collar Defense & Investigations
Cozen O’Connor Acquires Prominent White Collar Defense Firm
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March 26, 2008
Press Release - Family Law
Cozen O’Connor Attorney Jennifer A. Brandt Appears On Fox News And MSNBC
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March 25, 2008
Publication - Construction Law - Real Estate & Construction
Insurance Coverage is Not One Size Fits All - ForConstructionPros.Com - Construction contractors typically secure commercial general liability (CGL) insurance policies and assume that these policies address all of their risks. However, these CGL policies may not always apply or cover all risk scenarios that a contractor may face in a construction project. In fact, there are a variety of instances in which CGL policies may not provide the protection contemplated by a contractor. Let's discuss a few.
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March 21, 2008
Publication - Subrogation & Recovery
Recall Information from 3/21/2008 - Breaking Legal News and/or Recall Alerts - Salton Inc. Recalls Electric Toasters Due to Fire Hazard
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March 21, 2008
Press Release
Cozen O’Connor Member Tia C. Ghattas Named Managing Partner of Chicago Office
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March 20, 2008
Press Release - Insurance Coverage - Insurance
Cozen O’Connor Attorney Kendall K. Hayden Designated 2008 Texas Rising Star by Law & Politics
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March 20, 2008
Press Release - White Collar Defense & Investigations
Cozen O’Connor Members Barry Boss, Bernard S. Grimm And Hayes A. Hunt Lecture on Trial Skills for D.C. Bar
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March 19, 2008
Press Release - Family Law
Cozen O’Connor Attorney Jennifer A. Brandt Appears On The O’Reilly Factor
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March 19, 2008
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A federal district court judge in the Western District of Washington recently dismissed an antitrust class action suit alleging that two private equity funds had unlawfully conspired in their bid to acquire WatchGuard Technologies (“WatchGuard”), a publicly traded company. Pennsylvania Avenue Funds v. Borey, Number C06-1737RAJ (W.D. Wash. Feb. 21, 2008).
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March 18, 2008
Press Release - Subrogation & Recovery
Cozen O’Connor Member Kevin J. Hughes Named Vice Chair of Subrogation Department
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March 17, 2008
Publication - Insurance Coverage
What is That Smell?: United States District Court for the District of Arizona Concludes That an Insurer Did Not Act in Bad Faith by Providing Insureds Benefits Under an All-Risk Property Policy for Remediation of Foul Odors - Insurance Coverage Alert! - On February 21, 2008, the United States District Court for the District of Arizona concluded that an insurer, which provided its insureds with $1.8 million in benefits under an all-risk property policy for remediation of foul odors in the insureds’ house, did not act in bad faith; that a third-party adjuster hired by the insurer is not liable for breach of contract or bad faith; but that the insurer is responsible for
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