As a key deadline approached, lawyers for former pro football players and wives who say the National Football League failed to protect players from long-term brain injuries filed two more suits Monday, bringing to six the number of actions filed in Atlanta over concussions sustained on the playing field.

As a key deadline approached, lawyers for former pro football players and wives who say the National Football League failed to protect players from long-term brain injuries filed two more suits Monday, bringing to six the number of actions filed in Atlanta over concussions sustained on the playing field.

Billy Beane shook up baseball with a data-driven approach to evaluating talent that helped small-market teams level the playing field and made large-market teams even stronger. Can Beane’s methods be applied effectively to the legal industry?

In a huge win for labor, the 3rd Circuit has ruled that a corporation in bankruptcy cannot terminate its retirees’ health and life insurance benefits — even if its ERISA plan explicitly reserved its right to unilaterally terminate such benefits — unless it can show that doing so is a necessary part of its reorganization plan. The decision promises to alter the playing field in big corporate bankruptcies by mandating compliance with Section 1114 of the Retiree Benefits Bankruptcy Protection Act without exception.