ARTICLES

5/6/2015· Psychology

Developmentally Disabled Adult Wrongful Death: PICA Disorder and Choking

By: Dr. William A. Lybarger

I have been providing expert witness services for several years. My practice, for the most part, has involved personal injury and wrongful death matters in health and human service agencies. More specifically, my work frequently requires a Standard of Care opinion related to the level of care provided by a service organization to a person with a developmental disability and/or mental retardation. As a part of this practice I have worked several cases involving an eating disorder referred to as PICA.

1/24/2014· Aquatics Safety

Swimming Pool-Related Drownings & Injuries

By: Gerald Dworkin

Although showing a slight downward trend, U.S. pool-related drownings have see-sawed for the past several years - despite reinforcement of safety messages in the media.

2/2/2011· Computers

Case Scenario: Failed Wholesale Distribution ERP System

By: Brooks Hilliard

A regional wholesale distributor of construction products was sold a manufacturing ERP system that the software developer and implementer claimed was capable of meeting its distribution needs.

10/7/2009· Computers

IT Expert and Counsel in Computer Software Disputes - Professionals in Harmony

By: Dr. Stephen Castell

The Negotiation Competition, now in its fifth year, is a contest open to all law students in England and Wales, designed to promote the skill of negotiation, a crucial component of ADR

1/27/2011· Construction

Sustainable Safety: A Lifecycle Strategy for Fall Prevention

By: Michael C. Wright

The traditional methodology for addressing safety for facilities, machines or products is for owners, architects, engineers, consultants, contractors and vendors to complete the design, engineering, construction or fabrication of a project based on past knowledge, experience and training.

5/8/2012· Appraisal & Valuation

Tree and Landscape Values are Still Divergent in Practice

By: John Harris

Trees and landscapes have been valued since humans were given gardens for food and enjoyment. Once people determined how to harvest seeds, how to plant gardens and landscapes, and how to relocate trees and plants, then decisions about what to use and what not to use began to set values for plants. It is this author's opinion that these practices logically date back to the beginning of history.

12/4/2013· Mediation

The Commercial Way to Justice

By: Geoffrey M. Beresford Hartwell

International Commercial Arbitration, the chosen basis of the annual Willem Vis Moot, is arguably not au fond a process at law. It is quite simply the performance of an agreement between two parties to have a chosen third party hear and determine some difference between them.

1/22/2011· Banking

The Tangled Web of Enforcement Actions

By: Catherine A. Ghiglieri

As more and more banks are being downgraded to a problem bank status in this difficult economic environment, they are facing the prospect of a regulatory enforcement action.

11/11/2013· Elevators - Escalator - Automatic Doors

Revolving Door Injuries

By: Michael Panish

Within the past few months, I have been retained as expert witness to evaluate revolving door injuries in over a dozen different locations nationwide. While I usually see an even distribution of sliding door, swinging door, and revolving door injury cases, the revolving door injuries currently seem to be the most prevalent. What is particularly interesting is that no two of my recent cases were created by the same problem.

9/23/2011· Mediation

Mediation: Anger and Fear Affect Our Perceptions and Our Decisions

By: Douglas Noll

We have all experienced levels of anger and levels of fear in mediation, and we have witnessed our clients in fear and in anger.