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Phoenix Hearing in January 2014 Will Focus on Proposed Amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Aimed at Reducing the Costs and Burdens of Discovery....
By: Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

In lien foreclosure lawsuits involving lenders and contractors, priority is everything. Where you stand in terms of priority will not necessarily determine when you get paid, but rather will determine whether you get paid....

The legal industry’s newest buzzword is “overcapacity.” It’s constantly invoked in reports of flat revenue and declining profits in law firms, usually as the reason for and precursor to cuts of all kinds, from secretarial firings to partner...

In his recent testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin E. Dempsey stressed the imperatives of lives saved and operational agility as being at the fore of the U.S. military’s efforts in...

Courts continue to make it easier for employers to adopt arbitration agreements and class action waivers. In our most recent edition of SuperVision Today, we mentioned recent rulings from National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Administrative Law...

For the millions of Americans behind bars, getting justice for abuses suffered while incarcerated may seem like a fantasy. However, as the recent charges filed against the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department indicate, justice for prisoner abuse and mistreatment is not so farfetched.

It is rare for a case to combine energy drinks, copyright law, DJs, rap and snowboarding in Canada. The court’s decision in Beastie Boys v. Monster Energy Co. is such a case....
By: Field Law

In conjunction with issuing its final “larger participant” rule for student loan servicers last week, the CFPB also revised its education loan examination procedures. The revisions are intended to provide more extensive guidance for examiners to...

The father of a man killed by an accused drunk driver has been charged with punching the defendant in the bathroom of a Florida courthouse.

When Caesar was warned to “Beware the Ides of March,” Caesar would have known that the soothsayer was warning him about March 15th…a date certain. Similarly, the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) was warned that NCTracks was not ready...

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