Fresh Ink: Inside Today's Legal

By Jaime Bochet 
Of the Legal Staff

Welcome to your daily round-up of stories in today's edition of The Legal Intelligencer. Click the links below to access stories directly, or head to The Legal homepage. (Some stories may require registration or a paid subscription.)

Topping today's front page, U.S. Courthouse Correspondent Shannon P. Duffy has a case from the Eastern District of Pennsylvania: In a significant victory for parents of children with autism, a federal judge has certified a class action suit against Cigna Corp. for refusing to cover two types of behavioral treatments on the grounds that they are "investigative or experimental."

Below the fold, reporter Amaris Elliott-Engel writes that a divided state Superior Court has ruled that health care providers can base their charges for providing hard copies of medical records on the maximum charges spelled out under state law.

Our Page 3 Regional News story today is by our Delaware reporter, Jeff Mordock, who writes: Several law professors throughout the country have blasted Widener University School of Law and Dean Linda J. Ammons after the school ordered a one-year suspension without pay and a psychiatric evaluation for university professor Lawrence J. Connell after a university panel cleared him of all but one of the charges levied against him by two former students. The school contends, however, that punishment was warranted in order to protect the students who filed the charges from possible retribution.

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.

The Legal's contributed columns begin on Page 5, with our "Young Lawyers" (YL) page, featuring a column by Molly Peckman of Dechert, who laments the death of the conversation at the hands of social media and technology.

Page 7 contains our monthly "Paralegals" page, which includes an article by Christine M. Flynn of Swartz Campbell, who writes that CLE plays a vital role in paralegals' professional growth.

Have questions or comments about any of today's stories, or our coverage as a whole? E-mail me or any of the reporters directly. We hope you'll enjoy today's Legal!

Jaime Bochet is the Magazines & Supplements Editor for The Legal. Follow her on Twitter at @JaimeBochetTLI or e-mail [email protected].