By Hayes Hunt and Tom Leonard Milagros Maria Del Pino Suarez has a request for President Obama: While you’re in Cuba, please ask Raul Castro where her father, Rafael Del Pino-who was hanged in a regime prison in 1977 for…
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The Cuban Casualties Escaping Obama’s Notice
Tagged with: Cuba State Sponsor of Terrorism, Cuban Asset Control Regulation, Cuban Embargo, Foreign Sovereign Immunity Act, Obama Foreign Policy, Rafael Del Pino, Raul & Fidel Castro, State Sponsored Terrorism
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Posted in Civil Procedure, Corporate Compliance, Criminal Law, Jury, Litigation, Litigation Practice, Prosecution & Defense, The Bench, The Client, The Practice of Law, Trial, Uncategorized
Ticket to Sue – Pennsylvania’s Registration Requirement for Foreign Business Entities
By: Thomas G. Wilkinson, Jr. and Thomas M. O’Rourke Consider the following scenario: You represent a foreign corporation in a breach of contract action in Pennsylvania state court. Your client is seeking substantial damages for unpaid widgets that it shipped…
Crime-Fraud Exception to Attorney-Client Privilege – Facebook’s Lawsuit
Hayes Hunt and Michael Zabel The crime-fraud exception to attorney-client privilege: As an attorney, you may not anticipate it applying to your emails, your letters or your advice to your client. But even if you never see it coming, your…
Investigating Employee Wrongdoing
By Hayes Hunt and Arthur Fritzinger Companies in every industry—private and public—struggle with the difficult task of promptly identifying employee wrongdoing and responding appropriately. The National Football League continues to be embroiled in a controversy arising from its reaction to…
Your Client is Hacked and Personal Information is Leaked Online – Now What?
By Hayes Hunt and Jillian Thornton You are general counsel to a company, and your CEO steps into your office, clutching his iPhone in one hand and wiping sweat from his brow with the other, and tells you that a…
ABA Blawg 100 – From the Sidebar
Please consider nominating From the Sidebar for the ABA Blawg 100. In years past, we have been awarded the ABA Blawg 100 and ask that you help us continue our tradition. We really appreciate all your support and interest in our legal…
ABA Blawg 100
From the Sidebar has been selected to the ABA Journal’s Blawg 100, the 5th annual list of the best in blogs about lawyers and the law. Thanks for all your support, comments and advice all of you have provided to the…
