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Bankruptcy Judge Lifts Stay Over Family Court Architectural Plans

Posted on August 26, 2010
By Amaris Elliott-Engel Of the Legal Staff In a bankruptcy proceeding over the the use of architectural plans for a new Philadelphia family courthouse, Bankruptcy Judge Eric L. Frank ruled late Thursday afternoon that architect EwingCole, not private developer Northwest...

Is UK Firm's Part-Time Partner Policy Really the Answer?

Posted on August 26, 2010
By Jaime Bochet Of the Legal Staff One of the websites I check regularly (and get helpful daily e-mail alerts from) is a blog on Lawjobs.com called The Careerist. If you haven't heard of it, it's a blog that "aims...

Blog Buddies: GC and Outside Counsel Co-Author ACC Blog

Posted on August 25, 2010
By Jaime Bochet Of the Legal Staff According to an article posted today on Corporate Counsel magazine's website, a strange waltz is taking place on the Interwebs: a GC and his new outside counsel are blogging about their burgeoning relationship....

Social Media for Lawyers: Legal Updates on LinkedIn Expands JD Supra Reach

Posted on August 19, 2010
By Gina F. Rubel A few weeks ago, the social networking site LinkedIn and legal content distributor JD Supra announced a new partnership that helps legal professionals to increase marketing exposure. The idea is that by posting and sharing their...

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Where Are All the Women- and Minority-Owned Firms??

Posted on August 17, 2010
By Jaime Bochet Of the Legal Staff Every year, The Legal Intelligencer publishes a magazine called "PALaw: Annual Report on the Legal Profession," which provides hard data and analysis on PA's legal landscape, including our Managing Partners Survey (an anonymous...

Hickton Takes Office as Western Pa. U.S. Attorney, Former Firm Changes Name

Posted on August 13, 2010
By Zack Needles of the Legal Staff David J. Hickton, one of the five founding members of Pittsburgh-based litigation, transportation and business law firm Burns White & Hickton, was formally sworn in Aug. 12 as the U.S. Attorney for the...

This is Progress? Low Percentage of Fortune 500 Female GCs Is Up Slightly

Posted on August 12, 2010
By Jaime Bochet Of the Legal Staff It is not news to anyone that finding a female attorney in the corner office of a law firm is still a very rare occurrence. A story that appeared in The Legal earlier...

Back to School Means Thinking Ahead to 2011

Posted on August 10, 2010
By Jaime Bochet Of the Legal Staff It?s hard to believe that ?Back to School? days are now upon us, but the summer is indeed drawing to a close. But there seems to be good news for law students heading...

Family Court Facility Developer Objects to Lifting of Bankruptcy Stay

Posted on August 06, 2010
By Gina Passarella Of the Legal Staff Northwest 15th Street Associates, the original developer of the proposed site for the new Family Court facility, filed an objection Friday to the First Judicial District?s request to lift the automatic stay in...

Change of DGS Guard Won't Affect Family Court Project

Posted on August 03, 2010
By Amaris Elliott-Engel Of the Legal Staff Despite the announcement today that state Department of General Services Secretary James P. Creedon will step down Sept. 3, a DGS spokesman said that the Philadelphia family court project will not be affected...

Will Your Trades Secrets Be Safe if You Lose a Member of Your Senior Team?

Posted on August 03, 2010
By Eric B. Meyer Chris Botticella used to work for Bimbo Bakeries USA, the Pennsylvania-based maker of Thomas? English Muffins, among other products. As vice president of operations, Botticella had access to Bimbo?s code books containing the formulas and processes...

Death-Row Murderer Disbarred 9 Years After Conviction

Posted on August 02, 2010
By Zack Needles Of the Legal Staff Convicted murderer Richard Baumhammers' death warrant was signed before his disbarment order was. In January, Gov. Edward G. Rendell signed a death warrant for the Pittsburgh immigration lawyer who was convicted by a...

Reporters' Notebook: Family Court

Posted on July 30, 2010
By Gina Passarella and Amaris Elliott-Engel Of the Legal staff Perception is reality for parties involved in the troubled project to build a new family court facility in Philadelphia. Opposing sides have each pointed to the same e-mail or letter...

New Judge in Northwest 15th Street Associates Bankruptcy

Posted on July 30, 2010
By Gina Passarella Of the Legal Staff A new judge has been assigned to oversee the bankruptcy proceedings of Northwest 15th Street Associates, the original developer of the family court building site at 15th and Arch streets. The clerk of...

Joining With the Visceral Response

Posted on July 28, 2010
By Melissa M. Gomez Special to the Legal I was working with the plaintiff on a motorcycle accident death case. While the defendant's liability was pretty clear, we had a problem. The decedent's blood alcohol level was beyond the legal...

Architect Joins FJD's Request to Move Family Court Project Ahead

Posted on July 27, 2010
By Amaris Elliott-Engel Of the Legal Staff Architect EwingCole has joined the First Judicial District's motion to have a federal bankruptcy judge lift an automatic stay in the bankruptcy filing by private developer Donald W. Pulver's Northwest 15th Street Associates...

Is Work the Key to Being a Better 'Professional' Mom?

Posted on July 27, 2010
By Jaime Bochet Of The Legal Staff Law blog The Careerist, which is affiliated with The Legal, posted an article this morning on a topic that is sure to set tongues wagging around law firm water coolers across the country....

Using Information from Income Tax Returns as an Investigative Tool in Forensic Accounting

Posted on July 23, 2010
By Terry Silver The term "forensic" means "suitable for use in a court of law." By extension, the field of forensic accounting involves the utilization of accounting, auditing and investigative skills to assist in the resolution of a legal dispute....

What's the Story on Summer Programs?

Posted on July 22, 2010
By Jaime Bochet Of the Legal Staff The results of The American Lawyer's Summer Hiring Survey came out earlier this week, and as everyone probably expected, the results showed a grim landscape for law students looking for work. According to...

Tips for Lawyers From Legal Marketing Experts Part 5: Ethics of Marketing and Public Relations

Posted on July 16, 2010
Back in March of this year, I started a series of postings from the Legal Marketing Association?s national conference. During the conference, I had the pleasure to present, along with various colleagues, during the Just JDs: Business Development Strategies for...

You?ve heard of the FBI?s National Sex Offender Registry. How about the National Sexual Harassment Registry?!?

Posted on July 14, 2010
By Eric B. Meyer EBossWatch, a group claiming to help people avoid hostile work environments and workplace bullying, launched what it calls the ?National Sexual Harassment Registry,? on July 14. The Registry, found here, is being billed as ?a database...

Law Department Cuts Over $700,000 in Outside Counsel Fees

Posted on July 14, 2010
By Amaris Elliott-Engel Of the Legal Staff With continuing weakness in property and business tax collections, the city of Philadelphia is making more cuts in order to balance its five-year budget, including cutting more than $700,000 in the Law Department's...

Forensic Accounting and the Art of Courtroom Avoidance

Posted on July 13, 2010
By Terry Silver As a forensic accountant, our accounting, tax and consulting firm is often charged with valuing companies, especially as a part of adversarial divorce actions. In a matter where we represented the non-equity spouse in a matrimonial action,...

How Facebook Can Make or Break Your Case

Posted on July 12, 2010
By Eric B. Meyer Facebook has over 400 million active users. Twitter users are recording an average of 55 million tweets a day. If an employee files suit against your client, what are the odds the employee uses social media?...

Do You Contract With The Government? You May Need To Tell Your Employees That They Can Form A Union

Posted on July 09, 2010
By Eric B. Meyer Special to the Legal As of June 21, many federal contractors and subcontractors are required to post notices educating their employees about their right to form, join and support a union and to bargain collectively with...

Two Recent Supreme Court Decisions Provide Little Clarity for Employers

Posted on July 06, 2010
[This posting is for informational purposes and should not be construed or interpreted as either legal advice on any matter or as in any way creating an attorney/client relationship] Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court rendered two employment law decisions...

Committee of Seventy Calls for Halt to Family Court Funding

Posted on July 01, 2010
By Amaris Elliott-Engel Of the Legal Staff The Committee of Seventy, Philadelphia's good government group, called today for Gov. Edward G. Rendell to stop the release of $200 million in state funds for the family court building in Philadelphia. The...

Nearly 90 Percent of Quarter Sessions Employees Agree to Transition to FJD Staff

Posted on June 30, 2010
By Amaris Elliott-Engel Of the Legal Staff As the First Judicial District continues to merge the operation of the Clerk of Quarter Sessions, the clerk for criminal cases, into its own operation, 92 employees have agreed to leave civil service...

Sheriff's Office: Cutting Sheriff's Overtime May Affect Prison Population

Posted on June 29, 2010
By Amaris Elliott-Engel Of the Legal Staff In a memo sent to court leaders and obtained by The Legal, the Philadelphia Sheriff's Office said that some of its efforts to reduce its overtime bill require it to end some of...

Labor Department Extends FMLA to Cover Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Parents

Posted on June 29, 2010
[This posting is for informational purposes and should not be construed or interpreted as either legal advice on any matter or as in any way creating an attorney/client relationship] On June 22, the U.S. Department of Labor clarified the definition...

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