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Almost exactly one year after Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice and U.K.-based Bond Dickinson announced they would be forming a strategic alliance, the two firms have decided to take things to the next level. The partners of Womble Carlyle and ...

Tagged with: Bond Dickinson Merger Womble Carlyle

“Mise en place” is a French culinary phrase often used in professional kitchens to refer to preparing and arranging the ingredients a chef will require for a meal before service begins. In short, it means to “set in place.” If ...

Tagged with: ADR Alternative Dispute Resolution

The experience of law school is unique among graduate-level programs, so much so that law students and lawyers have often told me that law school changed them in some fundamental ways. This realization usually occurs after numerous friends and family ...

Tagged with: Law School Socratic Method

Attorneys sometimes talk about “dumbing down” their case before presenting it to jurors. Certainly, many issues need to be explained in an orderly and simple way, and that process could be called “dumbing down.” But, from my perspective, the expression ...

Tagged with: Patent Disputes

Data breaches might look like fod­der for headline news or primetime television, but lawyers warn that the legal drama that can unfold fol­lowing an errant keystroke is real and increasingly common. When it comes to tracked data breaches, the United ...

Tagged with: Cybersecurity Identity Theft Resource Center Sensei Enterprises Sharon D. Nelson

The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a district court award of more than $700,000 to a North Carolina couple who claimed that Hurricane Irene severely damaged their waterfront home. The court found May 3 that the timely ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Allstate Woodson

Inmates in South Carolina prisons have no constitutional right to the grievance policy that the corrections department provides, but they do have the right — should they file a grievance — not to be retaliated against, a divided 4th U.S. ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Patrick Booker South Carolina Department of Corrections

Like the noxious vapors left behind by a passing smoker, the litigation between R.J. Reynolds Tobacco and 3,500 of its current and former employees has lingered longer than anyone would have liked. But the protracted dispute might finally be close ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Carlton Tilley Judge Diana Gribbon Motz R.J. Reynolds

Let’s face it: We need email. But we also need a way to control the beast that email can become. It is estimated that almost 30 percent of our workday is consumed by dealing with email. How do we tame ...

Is business still happening on the golf course today? Overwhelmingly, the answer is yes. Craig Smith, who has more than 35 years’ experience in sales in New Jersey and the tri-state area, has been an avid golfer for 25 years. ...