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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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May 12, 2014
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John J. Sullivan, member of Cozen O’Connor’s Litigation Department, and Christopher Passavia, associate in Cozen’s Litigation Department, co-authored an article titled “How to Clean Up against Washing Machine Class Actions,” in which they discuss the difficulties presented when defending against such lawsuits. Sullivan and Passavia offer their advice, based on various Washing Machine Class Actions cases, on what steps can be taken by the defense.
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May 09, 2014
Publication - Public & Project Finance
This podcast will address the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s final municipal advisor rule issued in fall of 2013 with a particular focus upon their impact with respect to underwriters and the ability of underwriters to provide information and ideas for financings to issuers and obligated persons.
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May 08, 2014
Publication - Insurance Coverage, Professional Liability Insurance Coverage - Insurance
Litigation over challenges to corporate mergers has swelled in recent years, exposing directors, officers and their D&O insurers to large amounts of defense costs and potentially great liability. The Delaware Chancery Court recently issued an opinion analyzing and explaining the various standards by which courts review challenges to director decision-making in the merger context, which provides a thorough summary for all interested parties.
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May 08, 2014
Publication - Tax - Gaming
A nearly unanimous Pennsylvania Supreme Court reversed the Commonwealth Court and held that certain promotional expenses were deductible in calculating gross terminal revenue for purposes of the 34 percent Pennsylvania tax on slot machines.
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May 07, 2014
Press Release - Aviation, Government & Regulatory, Health Care & Life Sciences, Transportation & Trade - Aviation
Cozen O’Connor has continued to grow its Washington, D.C., office with the recent additions of health care attorney Ryan Blaney and aviation attorney David Heffernan, both of whom join the firm as members.
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May 06, 2014
Publication - Bad Faith, Insurance Coverage - Insurance
Last week, the Washington Court of Appeals held that “in an insurance bad faith case, the amount of a reasonable covenant judgment sets a floor, not a ceiling, on the damages the jury may award.” Miller v. Safeco Ins. Co., No. 68594-5-1. The claim arose out of an automobile accident in 2000, when Patrick Kenny, the at-fault driver, rear-ended a cement truck, severely injuring his three passengers.
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May 06, 2014
Publication - Employment Litigation, Labor & Employment
Michael Schmidt, vice chair of Cozen O’Connor’s Labor and Employment Department, and Jason A. Cabrera, associate in the Labor and Employment Department, co-authored an article for The Legal Intelligencer titled, “Restricted Covenants in the Internet Age.” The article discusses the impact of social media on restrictive convents.
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May 05, 2014
News - Business, Corporate - Sports
Steve Silton, a member of Cozen O'Connor's Corporate Department, was on Bloomberg Radio’s “Morning Bloomberg Law Brief” on Monday, May 5, 2014, discussing the retention by Governor Andrew Cuomo’s administration of a key sports and business lawyer to assist in the state’s bid to prevent the Buffalo Bills football team from relocating.
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