The days of one firm—let alone one lawyer—handling all of a client’s complex cases or transactions are fading fast. A complex federal civil trial today can often involve lead national counsel, local counsel, specialty counsel interfacing with...
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Equity – Out of Sync: The Great Email Crisis
In the spring of 1851, the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, an event now known as the first World’s Fair, opened in Hyde Park, London. Hundreds of thousands of people from all across the world flocked to the Great...
Five Steps To Protect Your Trade Secrets Without A Non-Compete
How do you protect your trade secrets? If the answer is by imposing non-compete clauses on your workforce, there’s bad news: As trends in trade secrets go, non-competes are on their way out. Relying on non-compete clauses in contracts has...
The Art of Witness Impeachment
I often have occasion to recount wisdom-laden legal anecdotes for the edification of newer lawyers. These lawyers listen with rapt attention, even while glancing at their phones. Ahead, preserved for posterity, is one of those anecdotes. It...
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Equity – Performance Anxiety: How to Survive Evaluation Season
Performance reviews are like visiting the dentist: You have to endure them with some regularity. They are usually riddled with anxiety and can be slightly painful. In the end, you are glad that you went, while simultaneously relieved that you don’t...
Stressless Ways To Address Stress
If you ever have the desire to see a perfectly executed eye-roll, or just have a glance at an eloquently blank stare, here’s what to do: Ask another attorney if they’ve been stressed out lately. Pushing the point can escalate the matter from...
What Does the New Public Infrastructure Bill Mean For Property Owners Facing An Eminent Domain Taking?
With $1.2 trillion of federal funds approved under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to rebuild America’s infrastructure, states will soon be flooded with monies aimed at addressing a slew of road, highway, bridge, railway and...
ANNOUNCING TOBY PRINCE BRIGHAM OCA SCHOLAR NINA SAWAYA
Press Release from Newswire.com - DENVER, November 9, 2021 Owners' Counsel of America (OCA), a national association of experienced eminent domain lawyers is pleased to announce that Nina Sawaya, a second year law student attending Denver University...
2021 EMINENT DOMAIN UPDATE:
KEY DECISIONS IN PUBLIC USE AND JUST COMPENSATIONPREREQUISITES TO THE TAKING Utah: As long as taking is for the birds, not the environmental plaintiffs, it's a public use In Utah Dep’t of Transp. v. Coalt, Inc., the Utah Supreme Court considered...