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May 26, 2011
News - Corporate
Cozen O’Connor Ranked Third Overall in U.S. in Reactions Legal Survey 2011
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May 24, 2011
Press Release - Labor & Employment, Utility & Energy
14-Lawyer Team Led by A. Martin Wickliff, Jr. & Alton J. Hall, Jr. Join Cozen O’Connor in Houston - Additions Enhance Firm’s Labor and Employment and Energy Law Practices
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May 24, 2011
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Global-Warming Litigation Gets Frosty Reception at the Supreme Court - The Legal Intelligencer - It is often difficult to predict the outcome of Supreme Court cases. This is not because the individual justices are particularly fickle or inscrutable. The reason is quite simple: The cases that make it all the way to the Supreme Court are hard. The court does not usually intervene in a dispute unless at least two lower courts, each composed of smart jurists, answered the same legal question differently.
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May 23, 2011
Publication - Insurance Coverage - Insurance
South Carolina and Hawai’i have now joined Colorado and Arkansas as two of four states that have passed legislation aimed at broadening the definition of ''occurrence'' under commercial general liability (CGL) policies as it relates to construction defect claims.
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May 23, 2011
News - Family Law
Cozen O’Connor Member on Fox News’ Happening Now
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May 23, 2011
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Stephen A. Cozen Named the 2011 Pillar of Achievement Recipient
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May 23, 2011
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Pillar of Achievement Award - Jewish Sports Hall of Fame - Steve Cozen grew up with sports. One might say he was born with sports in his blood, for his father was Sam Cozen, the venerable coach at Overbrook High School and Drexel University. Steve played football, baseball and basketball in high school, and baseball and basketball at the University of Pennsylvania, where he later went to law school. Steve then founded a law firm that under his leadership grew from four lawyers in 1970 ...
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May 20, 2011
Publication - Bankruptcy, Insolvency & Restructuring, Business
Bankruptcy filings dip - Philadelphia Business Journal - Local Chapter 11 business bankruptcy filings fell close to pre-recession numbers in the first quarter after spiking dramatically between late 2008 through the middle of last year. But a second wave of filings could come if interest rates rise without being accompanied by significant economic improvement, analysts and bankruptcy lawyers say. Business Chapter 11 filings in New Jersey and the Eastern District of
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May 17, 2011
Publication - Subrogation & Recovery
Title XXXVII. Insurance - West's Florida Statutes Annotated - Upon receipt of a claim for a sinkhole loss, an insurer must meet the following standards in investigating a claim:
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May 12, 2011
Publication - Business, Tax
Farmstead Valued at Current Market Value - Tax Alert! -
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May 12, 2011
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Stephen Miller, a member in the Criminal Defense and Government Investigations Practice Group, was quoted by multiple news agencies, including the Associated Press, Bloomberg News, and Reuters. Mr. Miller commented on recent insider-trading cases involving Raj Rajaratnam and three traders. Mr. Miller describes how wire tapping was used in the case and how it has been effective.
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May 10, 2011
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A 'CSI effect' for wiretapping? - The National Law Journal - The impact of the insider-trading prosecution of Raj Rajaratnam will be seismic. The verdict is significant, to be sure, but the prosecutors' method of assembling the evidence in the case will be the most lasting legacy — in particular, the use of wiretaps to prove criminal intent with devastating clarity.
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May 10, 2011
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May 09, 2011
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How secret is the settlement that you obtained with help from the court? Over the years, the answer in the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has been "not so secret" — even when you expressly provided for it to be secret. Because of the 3rd Circuit's recent decision in LEAP Systems Inc. v. MoneyTrax , settling parties with secrecy concerns now have a little more comfort.
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May 04, 2011
Publication - Products Liability
Roadmap to social media for pharmaceutical companies - PharmaLive -
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May 04, 2011
Press Release
Cozen O’Connor Names 17 Attorneys To Membership in the Firm. ''We congratulate this group of exceptional lawyers and are happy to welcome them into Membership in the firm,'' said Tad Decker, president and CEO of Cozen O’Connor. ''This promotion is the well-deserved result of their continuing hard work and dedication to their clients and the firm.''
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May 04, 2011
Press Release
Cozen O’Connor Recognized For Corporate Philanthropy
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May 01, 2011
Publication - Insurance Coverage - Insurance
Two Looks at the Insurance Legal Landscape - The Insurance Research Letter - New York High Court: “Other Insurance”
Clause Relieves D&O Insurer of Obligation
to Share Defense Costs with CGL Insurer
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May 01, 2011
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IAs and Conflicts of Interest: Stop Them Before They Start - Claims Magazine - A phone call brings a new assignment: a large fire destroyed several local businesses in a strip mall. While initial reports suggested the fire was still under investigation, witnesses noted that they first saw fire from the grocery store, the anchor tenant, and it spread to the neighboring book store and salon. While the fire department contained the blaze to those three stores, the remaining businesses sustained
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April 28, 2011
Publication - Insurance Coverage - Insurance
John Hancock Financial’s Settlement With California Highlights The Tension Between Compliance With The Law And Evolving Best Practice Standards - Insurance Coverage Alert! - landmark settlement with John Hancock Financial (Hancock), a subsidiary of Manulife Financial Corporation. The settlement was the outcome of an investigation, commenced in July 2008, of 21 insurance companies relating to allegations that, under a decades-old industry-wide practice, companies have failed to pay death benefits to the beneficiaries of life insurance policies.
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