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Federal District Courts Enjoin CMS’s Most Favored Nation Model Rule for Medicare Part B Drug Reimbursement Saturday, January 9, 2021 At a time when prescription drug costs have been increasingly burdensome for Medicare beneficiaries,  and the American taxpayer, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued an interim final rule with comment period on November 27, 2020,[i] explicitly recognizing, as a basis for the rule, “[i]ncreases in drug prices” that “...

Ethics attorneys hopeful COVID-19 will prompt changes in remote working rules   Image from Shutterstock.com. The continued spread of COVID-19 has resulted in lawyers across the country working remotely for months on end, including in jurisdictions where they are not licensed to practice law. While this trend prioritizes public health and provides workers with increased flexibility, it could also raise ethical issues for some attorneys. That’s because many states have adopted rules of profess...

Wednesday, December 23, 2020 The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is poised to outline its planned steps to achieve the goals of its climate change-focused policies.  On December 7, 2020, the Massachusetts Executive Office for Energy and  Environmental Affairs (“EOEEA”) hosted a webinar to discuss the development and pending release of the Massachusetts  Decarbonization Roadmap to 2050 (the “Roadmap”), which EOEEA indicates it will publish this month. The Roadmap constitute...

ABA Open To Attys Working Remote Outside Home States By Law360 is providing free access to its coronavirus coverage to make sure all members of the legal community have accurate information in this time of uncertainty and change. Use the form below to sign up for any of our weekly newsletters. Signing up for any of our section newsletters will opt you in to the weekly Coronavirus briefing. Sign up for our Legal Ethics newsletter You must correct or enter the following before you can si...

What are ethics issues for lawyers practicing remotely from a different state during the pandemic?   Image from Shutterstock.com. During the COVID-19 pandemic, more and more lawyers have worked remotely from home and practiced law primarily through electronic means. Some of these lawyers live in a different state than where they are licensed to practice law. The ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility’s latest formal ethics opinion, released Wednesday, explains that ...

Zach Greenberg says awful things for a living. He doesn’t (necessarily) believe them. The Philadelphia-based lawyer quotes the awful things other people say, sometimes taken from court decisions, when he gives legal presentations on controversial speech and the First Amendment. His career, reputation and very sanity are threatened by newly amended “rules of professional conduct,” approved by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, that could get lawyers investigated and punished for the subjectiv...