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By Brian Harris

Welcome to your Monday morning round-up of stories in today?s edition of The Legal Intelligencer. All of the links below will take you directly to today?s stories, or you can head straight over to The Legal?s homepage. (Some stories may require registration or a paid subscription.)

The top story this morning is the Defender Association of Philadelphia slated to withdraw from multiple Municipal Court courtrooms beginning today because the association says it has not received enough funding from the city of Philadelphia. As reporter Amaris Elliott-Engel writes, private attorneys will represent indigent defendants in those courtrooms instead, according to criminal justice leaders, but scheduling conflicts with the private attorneys will likely lead to more cases being rescheduled or delayed.

Below the fold on Page 1, reporter Saranac Hale Spencer writes that the Third Circuit has established a four-part test to determine whether a company is a joint employer under the Fair Labor Standards Act. The case of first impression arose in a class action suit filed by assistant managers at Enterprise Rent-A-Car branches across the country alleging Enterprise failed to pay overtime wages.

In more Regional News on Page 3, reporter Zack Needles writes that intellectual property boutique Caesar, Rivise, Bernstein, Cohen & Pokotilow has changed its managing partner. David M. Tener will take over the post that Manny D. Pokotilow held for about two decades.

As always, our People in the News section is on Page 2, and the top stories from our sister publications across the country make up the Page 4 National News section.

In the Public Interest page on Page 5, Angus Love writes that a consensus is building for sentencing reform.

In the Law Technology News page on Page 7, John Barkett writes that the ABA is set to tackle technology issues at its upcoming meeting.

If you have questions or comments about any of today's stories, or our coverage as a whole, we invite you to e-mail any of the reporters directly. We hope you'll enjoy today's Legal.

Full post as published by The Legal Intelligencer Blog on July 02, 2012 (boomark / email).