Welcome to your Wednesday morning round-up of stories in today’s edition of The Legal Intelligencer. All of the links below will take you directly to today’s stories, or you can head straight over to The Legal’s homepage. (Some stories may require registration or a paid subscription.)
The top story this morning is the state Supreme Court ruling that “highly reckless” conduct is an affirmative defense in products liability cases. As reporter Zack Needles writes, it requires defendants to show that a plaintiff’s highly reckless conduct was the sole or superseding cause of the plaintiff’s injuries.
Also above the fold on Page 1, reporter Amaris Elliott-Engel writes that attorneys may become mandated reporters of child abuse if one of the recommendations suggested by a task force created in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky and Archdiocese of Philadelphia priest sex-abuse scandals is passed into law.
Below the fold on Page 1, reporter Gina Passarella writes that a federal court refused to disqualify William Pietragallo from representing a defendant in a case in which he had previously contemplated representing the plaintiff.
In more Regional News on Page 3, Zack Needles writes that Spector Gadon & Rosen has started an energy and environmental practice group with the addition of environmental lawyer Kermit L. Rader, who will chair the group.
As always, our People in the News section is on Page 2, and the top stories from our sister publications across the country make up the Page 4 National News section.
In this week’s GC Mid-Atlantic column on Page 5, Julie A. Uebler writes about what employers can do to decrease the risk of employment litigation.
In a Trusts and Estates column on Page 7, Robert H. Louis writes about planning in an uncertain planning environment as we come to the end of 2012.
If you have questions or comments about any of today's stories, or our coverage as a whole, we invite you to email any of the reporters directly. We hope you'll enjoy today's Legal.
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