Posted on October 28, 2011 by William A. Ruskin

LexisNexis Nominates Blog As One Of Best!
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LexisNexis Top 25 Tort Blog NomineeThe LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community announced today that it has nominated the ToxicTortLitigationBlog for National Top 25 honors among Tort Blogs.  LexisNexis' Press Release stated:

We are inviting tort law practitioners to comment on our list of nominees. If you’d like to request that readers support your nomination, please ask them to comment on the announcement post on our Litigation Resource Community...

Each comment is counted as a vote toward the supported blog. To submit a comment, visitors need to log on to their free LexisNexis Communities account.  If you haven’t previously registered, you can do so on the Litigation Resource Community for free. The comment box is at the very bottom of the  blog nomination page. The comment period for nominations ends on Nov. 17, 2011.  We will then post the Top 25 Tort Blogs of 2011. Thereafter, our community will vote to choose the Top Blog through a Zoomerang survey.

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Posted on October 17, 2011 by William A. Ruskin

Non-Admitted In-House Counsel Can Practice in NYS
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I am pleased to report that the New York Court of Appeals has amended the Rules of the Court of Appeals for the Admission of Attorneys and Counselors at Law to permit in-house counsel admitted in any U.S. jurisdiction to be able to register with the Court of Appeals and provide legal advice in New York to the lawyer's employer.  For years, non-admitted in-house counsel have been hindered in their ability to provide advice to their employers concerning New York law issues at times due to the restrictions that have now been lifted.  There are two exceptions to the new rule: (1) such advice does not include court litigation representation; and (2) the Court rejected the NYS Bar Association's recommendation to include lawyers admitted to a home jurisdiction outside the United States. 

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