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2nd Annual Professor Anthony J. Santoro Business Law Lecture Series
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06/18/2013
Talented, Diverse Student Leaders Take the Helm
I look forward to working closely with the new crop of leaders of our flagship student organizations, the Roger Williams Moot Court Board and the Roger Williams Law Review.  It is truly a...
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  • March 05, 2013
    Logan Marches at Selma Anniversary
    From The Faith & Politics Indstitute: "2013 Civil Rights Pilgrimage a Great Success" Read Dean Logan's Tweets from the event. See the Facebook page for the event. Read the AP story and photos of the event. Watch a USA Today video of the event. Watch a Faith & Politics video about the meaning of the event. See a group shot of the participants. SELMA, Ala., March 4, 2013: [Dean David A. Logan, as a guest of Congressman David Cicilline, joined Vice President Joe Biden, U.S. Attorney...
    biden, civil rights, law, Logan, march, Roger Williams, RWU, selma
  • February 26, 2013
    Voice of Russia: Logan on BP Trial
    From The Voice of Russia Radio: "BP Deepwater Trial Begins" by Victoria Mashkova    WASHINGTON, Feb 25, 2013 09:10 Moscow Time: BP's trial for the Deepwater Horizon explosion begins in New Orleans today. Voice of Russia's Victoria Mashkova talks with David A. Logan, the Dean of Roger Williams University School of Law: Logan calls the Deepwater trial "one of the most complicated cases that the United States courts have ever seen." There are actions being brought against BP by...
    BP, federal, fines, law, legal, liability, Logan, oil spill, Roger Williams, RWU, trial
  • February 25, 2013
    Logan on BP Oil Spill Trial
    From the New Orleans Times-Picayune: "BP oil spill trial begins Monday in New Orleans almost three years after one of the worst spills in U.S. history" by Mark Schleifstein and Richard Thompson, Staff writers February 22, 2013, updated February 25, 2013: The long-awaited civil trial against BP and its partners in the ill-fated Macondo oil well is slated to begin Monday in federal court in New Orleans, setting the stage for a three-month proceeding to assign liability potentially worth tens of...
    BP, damages, Gulf, law, legal, Logan, oil spill, Roger Williams, RWU, trial
  • January 05, 2013
    Logan on Gulf Spill Settlement
    From the New Orleans TIMES-PICAUNE: "Unlike BP, Transocean likely off the hook for felony charges related to workers' deaths in 2010 Gulf spill Oil Rig Explosion" by Richard Thompson, NOLA.com January 04, 2013: Like their counterparts at BP, executives at Transocean Ltd. are likely breathing easier with the looming unknowns of civil and criminal fines and penalties now settled for their role in the massive 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, legal experts and industry analysts following the...
    BP, Gulf, law, Logan, oil, Roger Williams, RWU, setttlement, spill, transocean
  • January 30, 2012
    Prayer Banner: What Would Roger Do?
    From the PROVIDENCE JOURNAL: "What would Roger Williams have done?" by Ed Fitzpatrick January 29, 2012: What  would  Roger  Williams  have  thought about the prayer banner at  Cranston High School West? [...] David A. Logan -- dean of the state's only law school, which is at a university named for Roger Williams -- said Ahlquist fits into a tradition of courageous plaintiffs, exemplified by "the lonely pamphleteer," who adopt a minority viewpoint, face ostracism...
    Alquist, banner, church, cranston, David, law school, Logan, prayer, Roger, Roger Williams, state, Williams
  • October 19, 2011
    Dean Logan on BlackBerry Legal Exposure
    FROM REUTERS: "RIM could face lawsuits for BlackBerry problems: Some law firms are considering breach-of-contract or consumer-fraud claims over the recent BlackBerry outage" by Moira Herbst and Alastair Sharp Outlets picking up the story include MS-NBC, NPR, the Baltimore Sun, and others. October 19, 2011: Law firms in the United States and Canada are exploring possible consumer lawsuits against Research In Motion for last week's BlackBerry outages, which for three days crippled email and...
    blackberry, David Logan, Dean, exposure, law law school, lawsuits, liability, Logan, Roger Williams, RWU
  • October 18, 2011
    Dean Logan on Occupy Providence Movement
    FROM WRNI, Rhode Island's NPR: "What First Amendment rights does Occupy Providence have?" by FLO JONIC Click here to read the report and listen. PROVIDENCE, RI (WRNI) - Organizers of the "Occupy Providence" movement say they plan to camp out in Burnside Park indefinitely. Providence Public safety commissioner Steven Pare says he may let go it go on for a few weeks but not a month or more. What rights do the protesters have? If the city of Providence is forced to go to court to remove protesters...
    99, law, Logan, occupy, providence, Roger Williams
  • August 08, 2011
    Dean Logan on Nexgen Litigation
    From BLOOMBERG: "Artificial-Knee Suits Targeting Zimmer Now Haunt Lawyers" by Alex Nussbaum and David Voreacos The story was also picked up by the ABA JOURNAL, Indianapolis Business Journal, and others. August 8, 2011: Zimmer Holdings Inc. (ZMH), facing 78 product-liability lawsuits over its NexGen Flex artificial knees, has a rare strategy to defend the product: target lawyers representing the patients. Attorney Brett Emison, who wrote a blog post about failures in NexGen knees, got a letter...
    Dean, liability, litigation, Logan, Nexgen, Roger Williams, RWU Law