Welcome to your Monday 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 an Allegheny County jury awarding $109 million in an electrocution case. As reporter Amaris Elliott-Engel writes, the award, which includes $61 million in punitive damages, is the largest in the county’s history, according to annual statistics compiled in The Legal’s sibling publication PaLaw.
Below the fold on Page 1, reporter Zack Needles writes that Cohen Seglias plans to merge with a six-lawyer New York-based construction law boutique, Georgoulis & Associates, effective January 1.
In more Regional News on Page 3, Zack Needles writes that a jury has sided with the defense after two mistrials in a trip-and-fall case in King of Prussia.
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 an Insight on Diversity column on Page 5, Rochelle D. Laws and Sekou Campbell write about diversity as inclusion and shedding the “first” paradigm.
In this week’s Law Technology News page, Craig Ball writes about e-discovery search and looking in the wrong place.
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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