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|January 18, 2019Philadelphia Partners Walter “Pete” Swayze and Richard Goldberg were recently quoted in an article in The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philly.com).
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|January 18, 2019Orange County Partner Keri L. Bush and New York Partner Alecia Walters-Hinds will participate in a panel discussion at the DRI’s Women in the Law seminar taking place January 23 - 25 at the Hotel Del Coronado.
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|January 18, 2019Dallas Partner Katherine Compton recently penned an article for the Texas Bar Journal about a trademark litigation suit brought by Viacom International against IJR Capital Investments for infringing on its common law trademark of the Krusty Krab, a fictional restaurant from the animated television show SpongeBob SquarePants.
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|January 17, 2019The Pennsylvania Supreme Court, in Dittman v. UPMC, ruled that employers have a have a legal duty to exercise reasonable care to safeguard employees’ electronically stored personal information.The dispute arose after a data breach occurred at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, resulting in the personal and financial information of 62,000 UPMC employees being accessed and stolen from the UPMC computer systems.
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|January 17, 2019Philadelphia Partner Walter “Pete” Swayze was recently quoted by Law360 in their article, “Lewis Brisbois Lands Segal McCambridge Team in Philly,” discussing his team’s recent arrival to the firm, which was announced in a press release on Friday, January 11.
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|January 17, 2019Lewis Brisbois is pleased to announce the arrival of Deborah K. Flynn to our Seattle office as a partner in our Workers’ Compensation Practice.
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|January 17, 2019Twenty years ago, as I was working with the FBI and the Secret Service in prosecuting large identity theft rings – often associated with data breaches (although the term “data breach” had not yet entered our daily vernacular) – we created protocols to help consumers prevent identity theft and assist victims recovering from it.
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|January 17, 2019Patent applicants often wish to expand patent protection by filing outside the U.S. These applicants can take advantage of a few options – direct filing, filing through the PCT, and regional filings. But, prior public disclosure of an invention could be an insurmountable hurdle that may prevent applicants from achieving their goals.
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|January 16, 2019Lewis Brisbois is pleased to announce the opening of our latest office in Charlotte, North Carolina. Located in the Ballantyne Office Park, the new office joins Lewis Brisbois’ Raleigh office in the Tar Heel State, increasing the firm’s ability to service its clients on the Eastern seaboard.
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|January 16, 2019Ft. Lauderdale Partners Geoffrey Lottenberg and Stacy Schwartz will speak at an upcoming forum hosted by the Broward County Bar Association on Thursday, January 31 from 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. at the BCBA Conference Center.
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|January 15, 2019Philadelphia Partner Walter “Pete” Swayze was recently quoted by The Legal Intelligencer in an article about the new team of attorneys that has joined Lewis Brisbois’ Philadelphia office.
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|January 15, 2019Denver Partner John Cardinal Parks was recently quoted by Law360 in their article “Airline Merger Trial Preparing For Takeoff in Bankruptcy Court.”
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Legal Alerts
|January 14, 2019For many years Illinois has followed the “Massachusetts Rule” for snow and ice accumulations. Illinois Pattern Jury Instructions 125.04 codifies the “natural” accumulation rule and as been instrumental in allowing defendants to present strong defenses to slip and fall accidents that oftentimes result in very significant damages.
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|January 14, 2019Portland Managing Partner Eric Neiman was recently quoted in an article from Bloomberg Lawtitled “Behavioral Health Practices ‘Poised to Explode’ at Law Firms,” in which he discusses the “very fast growing area” of behavioral health law.
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|January 11, 2019Lewis Brisbois has significantly grown its Philadelphia practice with the addition of five new partners and five new associates.
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