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The Biotech Work Force: Unique Employment Law Issues

Special to Law.com
May 15, 2008

About 10 percent of the biotech work force was born outside the United States. Although the tensions and challenges faced by employers with a melting pot of nationalities in their work force may be unique, application of labor and employment laws is not. Attorneys Mary Dollarhide and Hannah Cole write that biotech companies must apply the same vigor and creativity they use in developing new technologies and products to creating solutions that allow compliance with applicable employment laws.

Is Your Firm Ready for Virtual Servers?

Law Technology News
May 15, 2008

With increasingly complex IT systems, virtualization may be the way to go for small to midsize law
firms -- it can also reduce their "carbon footprint." Server virtualization is the partitioning of a physical server into smaller virtual servers; instead of servers running at 10 percent or less capacity at certain points in the day, virtual servers can share hardware resources. This can result in a significantly higher average usage rate, lowering hardware and support costs.

As Time Passes, Hope Dwindles for Missing Ga. Lawyer

Fulton County Daily Report
May 15, 2008

It's been more than two months since Elizabeth Calvert, an attorney at HunterMaclean in Savannah, Ga., and a Hilton Head Island, S.C., resident, and her husband went missing. Eight days after the couple's disappearance, their former accountant -- who may have been the last person to see them -- committed suicide. The case is still under investigation, but hope for the Calverts' return is dwindling. "Any good outcome here is disappearing, it seems," says HunterMaclean managing partner John Tatum.

 
 

Tort Reform Going After Wrong Target?

Lawyer Eric Turkewitz takes a critical look at a recent New York City lawsuit that most reputable lawyers would have declined to take, and indeed did. He argues that it's unfair for the city to make the case a poster child for "ridiculous lawsuits" as it has done in recent press releases. In many pro se cases, or cases where a plaintiff is represented by a friend or a relative, it's often because most sensible plaintiffs lawyers turned the cases down. Carolyn Elefant asks: Is it fair to use cases that no lawyer would have taken anyway as an example of what's broken in the tort system?

--Legal Blog Watch

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