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In part one of this two part emergency management series on Legal TIPS, host, Attorney Barbara J. Gislason welcomes Attorney Leo Jordan, Chair of the ABA TIPS Task Force on Disaster Insurance Coverage to deconstruct the complexities of knotty wind and rain insurance. Gislason and Jordan also discuss the task forces concerns and recommendations to improve the way insurance coverage is offered in an emergency, which have been adopted as policy by the American Bar Association.

The Dulles Corridor Metro Rail Project was given the green light in early March paving way for bidding on the constuction agency agreement. It is no doubt a desireable constuction agency agreement as the project has been allotted $900 million dollars and provides much needed construction jobs.
The metro rail addition is set to extend the [...]

Had I but known! On the very day of the Ada Lovelace blogfest, the women who cracked the German Enigma code had their reunion! Here is an article in the Boston Globe from March 25, by Gregory Katz, about the ladies. When you read about the code breakers, they never stress that the group is mostly (all?) female. These women worked in secrecy and kept their secret until the 1970’s. In fact, according to the article, they did not entirely realize what they were decoding, since each of them worked on a tiny piece.

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Want to know more about jury consulting and presentation technology? In this edition of the ESI Report, Gina Jytyla, Kroll Ontrack Managing Staff Attorney, kicks the ESI Buzz off with special guests Tessa Eckholm, Design Director for TrialGraphix and Leslie Ellis, Jury Consultant for TrialGraphix, to discuss why presentation technology is a persuasive part of trial, in addition to the significant benefits of having a jury consultant on your side. In the Bits & Bytes Legal Analysis segment, Kroll Ontrack Legal Correspondent, Kelly Kubacki, will take a look at the discovery order issued in In re Fannie Mae Securities Litigation.

The online legal document provider, RealDealDocs.com has released a number of Asset Purchase Agreements for the top companies in America including many Fortune 500 companies. These are the actual legal documents drafted by the nation’s top law firms.
Technology Solutions Company drafted an asset purchase agreement with Valkre Solutions Inc. in January 2009 when Valkre Solutions [...]

Yesterday evening, I went to the Suffolk National Women Law Students’ Association Inaugural Alumnae Networking Reception. That’s a mouthful! But it was a terrific event. Suffolk actually has quite a few well-placed women graduates, many in the area still, as judges, and a surprising number as partners in firms or working in government agencies. There was a very good turn-out, both of current students, and alums coming for the event. All the deans came, as well as all the clinical women faculty, and most of the women on the doctrinal faculty. A few of the writing faculty came as well. It was a pretty wonderful evening, with an excellent speech by alumna, long-time adjunct and judge Bonnie MacLeod-Mancuso, J.D. 1972. She recalled being one of 12 women in a class of 254. While the numbers have changed so much (now most classes are nearly 50/50 male/female), other things still require a great deal more work — access to power and equal salaries notably.

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Supply agreements aka supply contracts are contracts for the provision of goods by one party (vendor) to another party (purchaser) for a specified period of time. Present at every level of the supply chain process and in every commercial industry, their goal is to create efficiencies. Vendors receive steady income, while purchasers receive [...]

Today is Ada Lovelace Day, a day set up here to encourage bloggers and twitterers to talk about women in technology. Ada B. Lovelace was a friend of Charles Babbage, and actually wrote the first computer program for Babbage’s proto-computer. The idea is that women need to see role models for themselves in technology, and this is one way to help that happen. We all signed up to blog about a woman role model in technology.

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Now that both the President and Attorney General have weighed in with FOIA Memorandum, Scott A. Hodes provides us with the procedural steps that will now take place in agencies and the effect the memos will have on the nine FOIA exemptions.

On July 1, 2009, new rules regarding Medicare Set-asides will go into effect. Join Ringler Radio host, Larry Cohen and his colleague, Joan L. Pagnano, head of the Braintree, Massachusetts Ringler office, welcome Peter Foley, Vice President of Claims Administration for the American Insurance Association, as they unravel the mysteries of the new MSA regulations.