By Cayce Peterson, Products Liability Committee Chair The NOBA Products Liability and Maritime & International Law Committees recently teamed up to present a CLE on the crossover of products liability in maritime cases. The well-attended eve… Read More »
Written by Shannon S. Holtzman, Business Litigation Committee Chair On April 26, 2018, the Business Litigation Committee presented an interactive panel discussion with current and former in-house counsel Renee Masinter (Entergy), Tom Hamrick (Hunt… Read More »
Written by Marcus Hunter, Kuchler Polk Weiner, LLC This article highlights a few of the “climate change” lawsuits which have been reported on recently by the national media. In August 2015, twenty-one children, ranging from age… Read More »
Written by Stephen G.A. Myers, Brian Reaney, and M. Palmer Lambert At this point, virtually everyone – whether in the legal profession or not – has he… Read More »
By: Alexandra G. Roselli Most defendants prefer to litigate in federal court, which is why removing a lawsuit is often one of the earliest strategic decisions that defense counsel must confront. While federal question and diversity are the two mos… Read More »
Written By: Dorothy L. Tarver Four issues continue to be the biggest obstacles to a woman’s advancement in the legal profession. They are traditional sexual stereotypes, inflexible workplace structures, inadequate mentoring, and sexual haras… Read More »
Written by: Anders F. Holmgren, Flanagan Partners, LLP for NOBA's Complex Litigation Committee Overview of Artis 28 U.S.C. § 1367 allows a federal court to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over state claims that are related to feder… Read More »
By: Charles-Theodore Zerner Many attorneys rely exclusively on “Boolean” keyword searches to identify relevant documents during e-discovery. For most of us, this is a familiar technology.[1] We learned how to draft Boolean search queri… Read More »
By Meghan Grant and Caitlin J. Flanagan Commercial general liability policies often contain a professional services exclusion. While not monolithic, the exclusion generally precludes coverage for bodily inju… Read More »
By Laura Avery, King, Krebs & Jurgens, PLLC Punitive damages have been a real risk to vessel owners since 2009, when the Supreme Court in Atlantic Sounding Co., Inc. v. Townsend, 129 S.Ct. 2561 (2009) restored the availability of punitive damages … Read More »