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HAPPY ANNIVERSARY – Today marks five years since the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges and, as Angela Morris reports, a lot has changed for family lawyers in that time. For one thing, they’re drafting more premarital agreements than ever. Why? Because, as Philadelphia lawyer Angela Giampolo explains, same-sex couples have been paying attention. “We’ve been watching straight people mess it up for 300 years. We are not immune to divorce,” she said. “Due to the fact we were just given this right five years ago, the people getting married tend to be older, and they tend to have assets.”
A LAW FIRM BY ANY OTHER NAME - Someday, Disney will own literally everything and the world will be a lot simpler. But until Mickey & Minnie LLP officially opens for business, the market for legal services is only going to get more crowded, as law firms increasingly jockey for position not just with each other, but with alternative legal service providers. In response to this complex competition, Dan Packel reports, more and more law firms are branching out and forming ancillary businesses that sport their own distinct brands and are designed to do battle with ALSPs, offering everything from tech innovation to flexible lawyering services. Getting them (and keeping them) off the ground can be tricky business, however.
TECHNICAL KNOCKOUT - For one brief moment, like a shooting star twinkling in the eyes of plaintiffs lawyers across Pennsylvania, it looked like the Keystone State was going to cement its title as the last bastion of general jurisdiction by consent in the country. A 2014 SCOTUS ruling, Daimler AG v. Bauman, all but obliterated the notion that merely registering to do business in a state meant consenting to be sued there. But in 2018, a three-judge Pa. Superior Court panel upheld the state’s jurisdiction by consent framework, Daimler be damned. Yesterday, however, a full complement of the court, reviewing that panel’s ruling, punted because of a procedural technicality, effectively affirming the trial judge’s decision that had dismissed the case due to Daimler. But this loss for the plaintiffs bar could prove as fleeting as its previous victory: Max Mitchell reports that the issue is already on its way back up to the Superior Court in another case. Still, at least for the time being, it may be harder to sue an out-of-state defendant in Pennsylvania.
EDITOR’S PICKS
Minnesota High Court Mulls Letting Law Grads Bypass the Bar Exam
Miami-Dade Courts Quickly Backtrack on Easing COVID-19 Rules
Reunited: Disgraced Lobbyist Jack Abramoff Leans on Abbe Lowell for Defense Again
California State Bar Rejects LegalMatch Bid to Operate Attorney Referral Service
Legal Analytics and the Evolving Practice of Law
WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING
ACTION PACT - Negotiators from the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union agreed this week on new EU-wide rules that, if approved by lawmakers, would make it easier to bring consumer class actions, Anne Bagamery reports. Unlike in the U.S., however, the proposed rules would put limits on who can bring collective lawsuits and implement a “loser pays” system designed to discourage abusive or frivolous lawsuits.
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