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Committees
Product Liability Issues in Maritime Law
May 18, 2018 CommitteesBy 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 »
A Conversation with Current and Former In-House Counsel - What Works, What Irks
May 1, 2018 CommitteesWritten 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 »
Climate Change Litigation: Recent Developments
April 6, 2018 CommitteesWritten 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 »
Opioid Litigation: Something Old or Something New?
April 2, 2018 CommitteesWritten 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 »
Recent Fifth Circuit Interpretations of the Class Action Fairness Act
March 1, 2018 CommitteesBy: 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 »
Obstacles Faced By Women in the Law
March 1, 2018 CommitteesWritten 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 »
It’s about time: The Supreme Court clarifies § 1367(d)’s tolling provision in Artis v. District of Columbia
February 6, 2018 CommitteesWritten 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 »
Relying on keyword search for e-discovery? It may harm your case: important pitfalls and how to escape them.
December 5, 2017 CommitteesBy: 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 »
The Professional Services Exclusion under Louisiana Law
November 20, 2017 Committees 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 »
Punitive Damages and Marine Policies
November 20, 2017 CommitteesBy 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 »