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Law Firm Confidential: What Do You Wish Your Colleagues Knew?
Posted on October 12, 2010By Stephanie Baum Of the Legal Staff Earlier this month, the Legal published an article titled, "What Do Attorneys Wish Their Paralegals Knew?" The article, an informal survey of a handful of lawyers contributed by Kim Walker, senior litigation paralegal...
Family Court Developments: Money and Mediation
Posted on October 08, 2010By Amaris Elliott-Engel Of the Legal Staff As settlement talks continue over the stymied Philadelphia family courthouse project, the campaigns for the two men running to be Pennsylvania's governor both refused to state this week whether they would follow in...
Meet the Legal Blawgers: #Blawger Hashtag Allows Attendees to Share Thoughts in Real Time on Twitter
Posted on October 06, 2010By Gina F. Rubel I recently had the pleasure to moderate a media panel, ?Meet the Legal Blawgers: An Insiders' Perspective on Connecting with the Legal Blogosphere? presented by the Bar-News Media Committee of the Philadelphia Bar Association, which I...
Coordinating the Efforts of the Forensic Accountant and the Attorney
Posted on October 06, 2010Accountants who provide litigation consulting services such as forensic accounting, economic damage analysis and business valuation must develop a mutual understanding with counsel regarding the goals and objectives of the case, the scope of the assignment and the methodologies to...
Rendell Sees Improvement in Med Mal Climate
Posted on October 05, 2010By Amaris Elliott-Engel Of the Legal Staff With 21 more insurers writing medical malpractice insurance coverage, Medical Care Availability and Reduction of Error fund payouts dropping dramatically over the last seven years and other promising indicators, the medical malpractice problems...
Outside Counsel Training In-House Lawyers on Providing Pro Bono
Posted on October 05, 2010By Jaime Bochet Of the Legal Staff It's not always easy for in-house counsel to provide pro bono services, but a program put on by a Philadelphia public interest group is allowing them to do just that. For the last...
Akin Gump, Orrick Call Off Merger Talks
Posted on October 04, 2010By Gina Passarella Of the Legal Staff After a brief overture, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld and Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe have called off their merger discussions.Word of the discussions came out last week and prompted talk of a...
Sharif Street Joins Zarwin Baum
Posted on October 04, 2010By Zack Needles Of the Legal Staff Philadelphia-based Zarwin Baum DeVito Kaplan Schaer & Toddy has added Sharif Street to its transactional practice group. Street, the son of former Philadelphia Mayor John Street, was an associate at Wolf Block until...
Discovery of Insurance Reserve Information in Bad Faith Litigation
Posted on October 01, 2010It is very common in bad faith litigation for the aggrieved insured to seek discovery of the reserve history in order to track the amount reserved by the defendant insurer in the underlying case. This is presumably done in an...
Wolf Block Sued by Litigation Support Services Provider
Posted on September 28, 2010By Gina Passarella Of the Legal Staff Wolf Block has been sued by a company it hired in March 2007 to help with on-site litigation support services.Reliable Copy Service Inc. filed its complaint Friday against the defunct law firm, seeking...
Klehr Harrison Picks Up Dechert Corporate Partner
Posted on September 28, 2010By Gina Passarella Of the Legal Staff Klehr Harrison Harvey Branzburg has picked up a Dechert corporate and securities partner in Philadelphia. Lisa Burnett moved to the firm after 13 years at Dechert ? serving the last few as a...
Superior Court Remands Bridgeport Fire Litigation Over Recusal Motion
Posted on September 28, 2010By Amaris Elliott-Engel Of the Legal Staff The state Superior Court has remanded the Bridgeport fire class action case for a trial judge to consider a recusal motion and to reconsider the fees paid to the claims administrator. The decision...
What Should I Wear?
Posted on September 24, 2010"What should I wear?" I have been asked this question more than a few times in my career. The last time was by a witness who brought no less than three suits, five shirts and four ties to the war...
City Council Authorizes Criminal Justice Hearings
Posted on September 24, 2010By Amaris Elliott-Engel Of the Legal Staff The Philadelphia City Council is the latest governmental entity to take its own look at Philadelphia's criminal justice system, which has come under scrutiny for problems such as witness intimidation. A resolution was...
Superior Court: Insurer's Reasonable Reliance on UIPA Regs Cannot Support Bad Faith Claim as Matter of Law
Posted on September 23, 2010On May 24, in Jones v. Nationwide, a panel of the Pennsylvania Superior Court unanimously affirmed preliminary objections granting a demurrer in favor of Nationwide Property and Casualty Insurance Co., dismissing a class action complaint against them, which, in part,...
GCs Well-Compensated, But Are They Satisfied?
Posted on September 22, 2010By Jaime Bochet Of the Legal Staff One of the hats I wear here at The Legal is as the editor of "GC Mid-Atlantic" magazine. Our most recent issue - which followed on the heels of an issue devoted to...
Reporter's Notebook: Hot Industries for M&A
Posted on September 20, 2010By Gina Passarella Of the Legal Staff Just as with the hot topics in legislation these days, the hot industries seeing M&A activity are the life sciences/health care and financial services sectors. Corporate attorneys seeing deals on the rise said...
Court Stays Bad Faith Claim, Picks Up Breach of Insurance Contract Claims First
Posted on September 17, 2010On Aug. 2nd Judge Albert Masland of the Cumberland County Court of Common Pleas in ECSM Utility Contractors, Inc. v. Selective Insurance Group, Inc., et. al. granted in part the defendant?s motion to bifurcate and stay the plaintiff?s bad faith...
Judge Rules Against Expediting Family Courthouse Bankruptcy Case
Posted on September 17, 2010By Amaris Elliott-Engel Of the Legal Staff A federal bankruptcy judge has ruled against settling the dispute over the property rights to the stymied Philadelphia family courthouse project with a mandatory preliminary injunction. The case will go to trial instead...
Social Media For Lawyers: Location-Based Networking
Posted on September 16, 2010By Gina F Rubell So by now, if you have read my previous blog posts on this website, you know that I am a fan of strategic and systematic social media engagement for lawyers as long as it has integrity...
City Controller Audit Finds Board of Ethics' Lack of Minutes, Lack of Funding
Posted on September 15, 2010By Amaris Elliott-Engel Of the Legal Staff City Controller Alan Butkovitz said that an audit of the Philadelphia Board of Ethics for the 2008-09 fiscal year found that the board does not have a record of holding public sessions on...
What Is the Key to Improving Associate Satisfaction?
Posted on September 14, 2010By Jaime Bochet Of the Legal Staff The AmLaw Daily has an excerpt of a column written by Steven Harper that addresses the seemingly answer-less question of how firms can improve associate satisfaction. Harper, an adjunct professor at Northwestern University...
Do Jurors Understand the Burden of Proof?
Posted on September 14, 2010I recently spoke at a seminar for public defenders about jury selection. One of the attendees made a comment during the presentation that she believed jurors don?t understand what ?beyond a reasonable doubt? means. She said she held this belief...
Northwest Argues Against Judge's Authority to Expedite Family Courthouse Decision
Posted on September 14, 2010By Amaris Elliott-Engel Of the Legal Staff Northwest 15th Street Associates, the private developer at the center of the stymied Philadelphia family courthouse project, told a federal bankruptcy judge in a court filing Monday evening that centuries of U...
Ballard Spahr Grows in Washington With Focus on Financial Reform
Posted on September 13, 2010By Gina Passarella Of the Legal Staff Ballard Spahr has expanded its consumer financial services group in a key market for the practice with the addition of a former Federal Trade Commission and bank attorney. The firm added Mercedes Kelley...
Blank Rome Re-Elects Chairman, Managing Partner
Posted on September 13, 2010By Gina Passarella Of the Legal Staff Blank Rome has elected Alan J. Hoffman to serve as chairman and Carl M. Buchholz to serve as managing partner and chief executive officer, both for three-year terms, effective Jan. 1, 2012. This...
Parking Authority Argues for Mandatory Injunction Over Family Courthouse Site
Posted on September 03, 2010By Amaris Elliott-Engel Of the Legal Staff The Philadelphia Parking Authority told a federal bankruptcy judge in a court filing today that the judge has the equitable power to settle definitively, with a mandatory preliminary injunction, whether the once-proposed developer...
Mediator Appointed in Family Court Bankruptcy Case
Posted on September 01, 2010By Amaris Elliott-Engel Of the Legal Staff The chief judge of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has been assigned to mediate the lawsuit between the Philadelphia Parking Authority and private developer Donald W. Pulver's Northwest...
Should You Monitor Employee Use of Social Media?
Posted on August 30, 2010Sharlyn Lauby, an HR pro turned consultant with more than 20 years of professional human resources experience, posted a wonderful article, "How to Handle an Employee's Controversial Online Comment." And notwithstanding that I am quoted at length in Sharlyn's story,...
The Pitfalls of Using Information from Income Tax Returns as an Investigative Tool in Forensic Accounting
Posted on August 26, 2010By Terry Silver In my July 23 blog, I discussed the benefits of utilizing information from income tax returns as an investigative tool in forensic accounting. The subject of this blog is to discuss some of the pitfalls in extracting...
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Did I harass someone?
Oh, yes. This can be taken in as so many things, especially since you had testif...
How to evict a roommate?
First, in most jurisdictions "self-help" is not a remedy available to any party ...
I have worked for this employer for only three weeks. The employer makes up his own rules as to what he chooses to report for the purpose of property taxes. He tells me to "let them come after us". He defines Entertain
He arrogantly insists, "let them come after us." Well, if you are invo...
This has happened 3 or 4 times a month now- they have turned the electric off 2 days consecutively, the water off about 9 or 10 times now, and our heat has broken 5 times (once it would not shut off, and we were forced t
i say stick with the apartment. eventually, everything possible will be replaced...
The company I worked for forced me to quit instead of dealing with someone harassing me, what can I do?
Look up CONSTRUCTIVE DISCHARGE...................this looks like what happened t...
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