8/18/2025· Speech-Language Pathology
Resuscitative Efforts Can Mimic a Choking Death
By: Megan M. Hamilton, MS, CCC-SLP
A person found in bed with food in their mouth, pale and pulseless is often assumed to have choked to death. Likewise, food items found in the larynx (entry to the windpipe) during CPR, suctioning or autopsy can appear to confirm asphyxiation by choking on food. Both scenarios may, in fact, be due to death by choking
8/18/2025· Construction
Construction Problems With Mandatory Start And Finish Constraints
A critical path method (CPM) schedule or programme is a dynamic planning tool that engineering and construction industry planners and schedulers commonly use to manage, coordinate, and forecast work activities based on activity durations and logic. It is paramount that a CPM schedule accurately calculate forecasted dates
8/14/2025· Expert Witnessing
Leveraging the Expert: How Soon Is Too Soon?
By: Beth Mohr, CFE, CAMS, CCCI
Is it ever too soon to start seeking out an expert? If you’re going to specialize in a particular area of criminal defense law, it might be worth your time to seek out experts in that specialty even before you have a client. When it comes to engaging an expert, whether as a consultant or as a testifying expert, the earlier in the case..
7/15/2025· Expert Witnessing
AI Expert Conflicts: Trade Secrets vs. Witness Qualification
What if you’re a lawyer in a major AI-copyright litigation and you find the ideal expert witness, but the expert turns out to be an “activist” researcher focused on destroying the technology built by your opposition? How does his professional bias and lack of impartiality affect your case? What do you do with this allegedly ideal expert witness? We delve into this below. First, however, some background.
6/29/2025· Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
A large, multi-national consumer products company had a fragmented and inefficient operating model. With operations in more than 30 countries, the company was not leveraging its size to achieve process efficiencies or economies of scale. In essence, it was operating as 30 different companies.
5/23/2025· Pharmacy & Pharmacology
Patient Roles in Antibiotic Management at the Hospital-to-Home Transition
There are many opportunities to improve patient-led antibiotic MM at the hospital-to-home transition. Mismatches between patient perceptions and patient experiences around antibiotic MM at the hospital-to-home transition provide opportunities for health system improvement.
5/23/2025· Product Liability
Managing NPD Project Tradeoffs
The NPD Project PentagonTM offers those involved in bringing new products to market who face numerous tradeoffs a way to frame their decisions. While this is a binary view, and often reality is highly multivariate, it still offers a useful tool in managing the inevitable NPD project tradeoffs. On your next NPD project, consider how the NPD Project PentagonTM would help in better managing your projects' tradeoffs.
4/30/2025· Architecture
Embracing Best Practices in Local Construction
By: Christopher D. Ling, AIA, NCARB
This piece delves into the essence of best practices, elucidating how local contractors' skills, experiences, and comfort zones significantly influence the success of a project. It underscores the importance of architects being attuned to the local trade practices to ensure project success for the owner.
4/21/2025· Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Machine Learning (ML)
The Hidden IP Risk Of Using AI With Independent Contractors
If your company relies on independent professionals—and especially if you use AI to analyze or optimize their output—there’s a growing compliance risk you may not have considered: your current contractor agreements may expose you to large-scale liability in an AI-enabled world.
4/21/2025· Ethics / Ethical Duties
California's Rules of Professional Conduct Makeover
The new Rules of Professional Conduct are coming. With new numbering, new language and additional rules that we have not seen before, there will be growing pains. However, think of these new rules as a new opportunity to re-familiarize yourself with the Rules of Professional Conduct and your ethical obligations as a California attorney.
