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Choose a jurisdiction and find a local advisor wherever your legal requirements may arise. Mega-companies. Great impersonal bastions of the legal tradition, bureaucratically loaded and often slow to react. The need for an alternative was obvious. The vision of a network of small, independent regional businesses with the ability to respond quickly, efficiently and cost-effectively to the needs of customers from Atlantic City to Pacific Grove was born. In its early days, it was little more than a possibility, discussed around a small table and dreamed up by a handful of visionaries. But the idea turned out to be too good to leave on the drawing board. Instead, USLAW has become a reality with the support of some of the country`s brightest legal minds. Discover an ever-growing collection of free resources to help clients with their day-to-day operations and legal issues. USLAW NETWORK is a legal network for buyers of legal services. We provide legal decision-makers with comprehensive resources, cutting-edge educational programs, and referral and networking opportunities to support them in their day-to-day management of legal issues. The USLAW NETWORK Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization organized solely for charitable and educational purposes, including funding scholarships to financially support various law students pursuing legal studies at an ABA-accredited U.S. law school.

Knowledge of the jurisdiction of the court and jury county-by-county is a key element in successfully addressing legal challenges in the United States. To better serve our members` clients, USLAW NETWORK offers a two-year judicial profile that identifies counties as conservative, moderate or liberal, giving you a significant advantage at home. Just as legal issues rarely follow state borders, they often extend beyond U.S. borders. In 2007, USLAW partnered with the Trans-European Law Firms Alliance (TELFA), a network of over 30 independent law firms representing over 1000 lawyers across Europe. In addition, USLAW member firms are located in Canada, Latin America and Asia. The depth of practice with USLAW member firms does not stop at dozens of substantive practice groups. The nature of the comprehensive service and the spirit of cooperation among U.S. law firms allows clients to access the full range of legal needs, regardless of their geographic location. USLAW`s business areas bring together lawyers from approximately 100 law firms worldwide, successfully serving thousands of local, regional, national and international clients. Check out our library of virtual programs, journals, legal notices and our series of exclusive short videos.

USLAW offers legal learning according to your own schedule. USLAW regularly creates new compendiums and updates existing compendiums that provide resources for multiple states that allow users easy access to general and legal state laws. The compendiums are readily available from state to state and are developed by USLAW member firms. Baird Holm`s partners, Chris Hedican and Mark Goldsmith, have achieved a positive outcome for their client Walmart. In March, a federal jury in Kansas ruled in his favor in a case of sex discrimination and retaliation. Hedican and Goldsmith acted as litigators for Walmart in this case. On July 15, 2022, Michael Kunsch, partner at Sweeney & Sheehan, won a unanimous defense verdict in a product liability case after a 4-day jury trial in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The applicant was injured after falling from a steel scaffolding while working as a union carpenter. In an important preliminary decision, District Judge Mark Kearney predicted that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court would uphold its longstanding categorical exclusion from the success of the Carr Allison litigation Read More Carr Allison`s attorneys, Chris Barkas and Kyle Weaver, have won a clear victory in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida.

The applicant`s attending physicians and mandated experts intended to submit to the expert report that the accident had caused the applicant`s injuries. Barkas and Weaver filed five Daubert petitions to prevent doctors from giving their opinions on causation, which focus on each physician`s lack of knowledge of the plaintiffs` medical history. After a three-day personal jury trial, Amy R. Humphreys and Jason Proctor of Flaherty Sensabaugh Bonasso PLLC have secured a defense verdict on behalf of a hospital in Cabell County, West Virginia. The plaintiff alleged that the company`s client failed to properly maintain its premises, resulting in a fall and bodily injury. On August 26, 2021, the jury returned a verdict that found no negligence and exonerated the hospital. Robyn Farrell McGrath, a partner at Sweeney & Sheehan, recently represented a commercial real estate owner and received a mandatory non-action at the end of the plaintiff`s case in a lawsuit heard by the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas. The applicant, 51 years old, had suffered bilateral fractures of the lower limbs after falling from a 16-foot sliding ladder and had claimed permanent disability as a result of his injuries. The plaintiff sued both a tenant and the landlord, arguing that. MehaffyWeber received full summary judgment on all claims against its client in a major commercial arbitration. It is rare to obtain a summary judgment hearing from an adjudicator, let alone grant one. Corey Seel and Warren Wise prepared the motion and arguments, and Trey Sandoval and Stephanie Shoemaker helped review and categorize the many documentary productions.

USLAW NETWORK and S-E-A, USLAWS` long-standing key partners, have jointly launched an ongoing health and wellness initiative focused on mental health and physical wellness. The Live Better joint initiative focuses on mind, heart and health, fostering a culture of health and wellbeing for all those who have returned to the office, are working from home or managing a hybrid work schedule. Traub Lieberman Partner Lisa M. Rolle obtained summary judgment in favor of defendant SRI Fire Sprinkler, LLC, a family-owned sprinkler business. The judgment was rendered pursuant to Section 3211(a)(5) of the CPLR on the basis that the Philadelphia Indemnity Insurance Company`s (plaintiff) negligence claim arose on the day the work at the site was completed and not on the date of the incident as alleged in the plaintiff`s complaint. As part of the underlying subrogation, the applicant took the initiative. To Lisa Angelo`s surprise, after the courts reopened during COVID-19, the parties to her case were ordered to appear for jury trials and selection. In this real estate fraud case, the plaintiff sued her former best friend of 34 years for wilful misrepresentation, negligent misrepresentation, implied fraud and breach of fiduciary duty. The respondent vehemently denied any allegation made by the plaintiff. Due to « social distancing, » they could only . Read more Listen to our members and their clients talk about USLAW`s success. Holland « Holly » Howanitz and Catherine Crawley received a full defense judgment in a liability case in Alachua County in May 2021.

The plaintiff had a $1.6 million lifetime care plan and claimed permanent injuries from neck and shoulder surgeries. She also claimed permanent disability and lost wages of more than $350,000. Traub Lieberman`s attorneys, Lisa M. Rolle and Erin O`Dea, filed a motion to dismiss in favor of a wall system installer (« installer ») in a second third-party lawsuit in the New York State Supreme Court, New York County. In the underlying claim, the plaintiff alleged that he had been injured by the fall of an object on the site in question and brought an action against the construction company associated with the project. The construction company. Franklin & Prokopik, P.C. read more in Maryland Obtains Complete Reversal of $400,000 Jury Verdict in Liability Case, On February 25, 2021, the Maryland Special Court of Appeals overturned a $400,000 jury verdict rendered in 2019 against one of Franklin & Prokopik`s private clients. The case involved a customer who sued a grocery store, claiming that while shopping, she was hit by a warehouse truck pushed by a salesperson who was in the store. Skelton & Hochuli`s attorneys, Donald Myles, Lori Voepel and Ashley Villaverde Halvorson, won three appeals on behalf of their client, the Farmers Insurance Company of Arizona, upholding their 2012 defense judgment in a bad faith case.