After weeks of anticipation, the federal government enacted the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act (“CARES Act”). The Act is the largest of its kind ever enacted and provides relief for small and mid-size businesses through a variety of programs.
At its core, insurance is a product designed to mitigate risk. Some risks are obvious: the risk that a building could catch fire or collapse; the risk that a mistake might cause a product to be defective; or the risk that poor or uninformed management might result in claims by an employee.
With courthouses closing in Pennsylvania and nationwide comes the expected suspension of jury trials. Courthouses throughout the country are changing how they are otherwise handling cases, including postponing cases, only accepting briefs filed electronically, and holding hearings by phone.
Many business owners around the United States, feeling the fear and frustration from government orders that their businesses close, are wondering if they can challenge the closure in court. Experts say they are unlikely to succeed.
On Wednesday, March 18, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ordered all courts within the state closed to the public through at least April 3, 2020, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Little mistakes; big consequences. The possibility of catastrophic consequences from the inadvertent disclosure of confidential or privileged documents makes litigators cringe. The proliferation of large e-discovery productions that make manual review unfeasible increases the risks of a misstep.
It was an axiom of childhood: “If you can’t say something nice about someone, don’t say anything at all.” The reality of business in the internet age is that if you can’t say something nice about a customer experience … you will probably post a negative review on Yelp, Google, Angie’s List or a similar review site.
This article provides an overview of issues that trusts and estates practitioners need to consider with regard to marriage and divorce, whether in the planning stages or in the administration of a trust or estate, as well as statutory provisions that attempt to solve for a failure to provide for a spouse or to make changes to a plan drafted prior to a divorce.
Remember when they were just called “Smiley Faces” – the minimalist “face” composed of two dots for eyes, and an upended parenthesis of a smile? In short order, these key-stroke images evolved into the hairless, yellow circles that graced multiple methods of electronic communication: the emoji.
Some attorneys treat defending a deposition as an opportunity to be a jerk. Speaking objections, witness coaching and bogus instructions not to answer are all arrows in the quiver of the “Rambo” litigator.
Clients, particularly those on the younger side, often balk at the document execution requirements imposed when it comes time to sign their wills. They have become comfortable signing real estate documents via online signature.
On the surface it seems simple. The definition of “fair market value” is the price at which a willing buyer will buy and a willing seller will sell, in an open market, where the parties are at arms-length and not related to each other.
