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For the First Time, City of Philadelphia Commits Dollars to Fight Witness Intimidation

Posted on June 28, 2010
By Amaris Elliott-Engel Of the Legal Staff Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams' request to receive an extra $400,000 for his office next fiscal year to address witness intimidation did not get very far? until now. For the first time the...

Supreme Court Decision Provides Insurers Latitude to Argue Offset in UM/UIM Arbitrations

Posted on June 25, 2010
Could in Turn Provide "Reasonable Basis Defense" in Bad Faith Litigation In what one would think would provide additional ?reasonable basis? cover for an insurer in bad faith litigation, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court last month ruled in Tannenbaum v...

Circuit Precedent? What Circuit Precedent?

Posted on June 23, 2010
By Bruce P. Merenstein Numerous procedural and jurisdictional issues that federal court practitioners confront on a daily basis have yet to be addressed by the Supreme Court. Thus, these issues are governed by the law of the U.S. Circuit Court...

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Be Sure the Strategies You Employ Don?t Hurt Your Case

Posted on June 22, 2010
A 1966 shooting and a 2007 death I recently had the pleasure of doing some pro bono work on a criminal trial that had quite a bit of exposure in the media. The case involved a police shooting on Nov....

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Dechert Grabs Head of Fried Frank Financial Institutions Group, Two Others

Posted on June 21, 2010
By Gina Passarella Of the Legal Staff Dechert has added three heavy hitters in Washington, D.C., from Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson?s office there. The firm brought on Thomas P. Vartanian, who headed up Fried Frank?s financial institutions transaction...

McCarter & English Adds Klehr Harrison Partner for Phila. Office

Posted on June 18, 2010
By Gina Passarella Of the Legal Staff McCarter & English added Klehr Harrison Harvey Branzburg partner Richard S. Roisman to its Philadelphia office earlier this month. The addition brings the firm?s Philadelphia outpost to just under 20 attorneys and follows...

City Council Mulls New Measure to Remove Clouds Over Title Deeds

Posted on June 17, 2010
By Amaris Elliott-Engel Of the Legal Staff City Councilman Bill Greenlee and Councilwoman Maria Quinones-Sanchez have introduced a proposed ordinance aimed at curbing the theft of property deeds and strengthening the requirements for the recording of deeds...

Efforts to Merge Quarter Sessions Move Ahead

Posted on June 17, 2010
By Amaris Elliott-Engel Of the Legal Staff The First Judicial District and the city of Philadelphia are working on the details of bringing the clerks who work in the city's criminal clerk's office into judicial employment and off the city...

State Senate Authorizes Study of Philly Criminal System

Posted on June 15, 2010
By Amaris Elliott-Engel Of the Legal Staff In addition to a court-led review of Philadelphia's criminal justice system, the state Senate also has authorized a study of Philadelphia's criminal justice system. In a resolution adopted today, the General Assembly's central...

Pepper Names Replacement for Position Left Vacant by Dusty Kirk

Posted on June 11, 2010
By Gina Passarella Pepper Hamilton said Friday that partner Matthew J. Swett has been named co-chairman of the firm?s 30-attorney real estate practice. The position was left vacant when Pittsburgh-based partner Dusty Elias Kirk took a team of six other...

Statewide E-Payment System Started for Criminal Cases

Posted on June 11, 2010
By Amaris Elliott-Engel Of the Legal Staff Philadelphia's Municipal Court and Common Pleas Court are the latest to join a statewide online payment system for court collections in criminal cases. The courts started collecting on-line payments this week...

When Eight is Not Enough

Posted on June 07, 2010
By Bruce P. Merenstein Losing litigants in federal court have a statutory right to appeal to the appropriate court of appeals from a final decision of a trial court. Under 28 U.S.C. � 46, such appeals are initially heard by...

Philadelphia Family Court Developer Still Wants to Build Courthouse

Posted on June 03, 2010
By Amaris Elliott-Engel Of the Legal Staff In the wake of the decision by the First Judicial District and the Philadelphia Parking Authority to terminate their agreements with the owner of the developer rights to the family court site at...

City Controller Finds Filth, Possibly Asbestos in Police Districts

Posted on June 02, 2010
By Amaris Elliott-Engel Of the Legal Staff The city's police districts, including locations where preliminary hearings are held in criminal cases, are in desperate need of repair, according to a City Controller's report released Wednesday. Among the problems documented by...

Duane Morris Goes Outside Phila. for New Corporate Dept. Head

Posted on June 01, 2010
By Gina Passarella Of the Legal Staff For the first time in the firm?s history, Duane Morris has selected a partner outside of its Philadelphia headquarters?and a relatively new partner at that ? to lead one of its major practice...

The Power of One

Posted on May 27, 2010
By Melissa M. Gomez, Ph.D. One persuasive person can make all the difference. That is why, in jury selection, I not only focus on those characteristics that will make jurors biased against and unwilling to find in favor of my...

FJD's Drug Treatment Court Selected as Model for Others

Posted on May 26, 2010
By Amaris Elliott-Engel Of the Legal Staff? The state's first drug treatment court, Philadelphia Municipal Court's Treatment Court, has been selected by a national body as a model for other courts striving to treat defendants' substance abuse problems, according to...

A Survey of Significant Bad Faith Cases From 2009

Posted on May 25, 2010
As we approach the start of summer 2010 in Pennsylvania, I thought it might be interesting with that tiny big of distance to take a quick sample of significant bad faith cases from around the country decided in 2009. North...

"Lawyers on the Fast Track" ? Nominations Open June 1

Posted on May 21, 2010
Once a year, the Pennsylvania legal community comes together to celebrate the "next generation" of great attorneys ?The Legal Intelligencer's Lawyers on the Fast Track. But before they can be honored, they have to be nominated ? by YOU! From...

Hear From the Media: Podcast

Posted on May 18, 2010
On April 22, 2010, I moderated a fantastic panel that addressed How and when to share your opinion with the press. The Philadelphia Bar Association has shared the program as a podcast on their website. Listen in and hear from:...

Senators: Sales Tax on Legal Services Remains Far-Fetched

Posted on May 12, 2010
By Amaris Elliott-Engel Of the Legal Staff Democratic state Sens. Michael J. Stack, D-Phila., and Lawrence M. Farnese Jr., D-Phila., both said Tuesday they are opposed to Gov. Edward G. Rendell's proposal to expand the sales tax to legal services...

Common Pleas Court Held 57 Educational Programs in 2009

Posted on May 12, 2010
By Amaris Elliott-Engel Of the Legal Staff Fifty-seven educational programs for the 108 judges, including senior judges, who sit on the Philadelphia Common Pleas Court were held in 2009, according a report recently released about the bench's voluntary efforts to...

The Rule of Seven

Posted on May 06, 2010
In case you were wondering, there is a reason why phone numbers have seven digits. It is because studies in human learning have found that most people can only retain up to seven pieces of new information at once (and...

Are Videogames Artistic Expression?

Posted on May 05, 2010
Recently, the Supreme Court agreed to hear the State of California?s appeal in Schwarzenegger v. Entertainment Merchants Association, a case which both the district court and the Ninth Circuit invalidated on First Amendment grounds ? a California law bars the...

Castille Asks Rendell Not to Appoint New Judges

Posted on May 04, 2010
By Shannon P. Duffy U.S. Courthouse Correspondent Citing a budget crunch that has left the judiciary in a ?precarious financial position,? Pennsylvania Chief Justice Ronald D. Castille last week urged Gov. Edward G. Rendell to immediately cease making any nominations...

Prop 8 Work Brings Olson, Boies to Philadelphia

Posted on April 30, 2010
By Gina Passarella Of the Legal Staff The Equality Forums Global GLBT Summit is being held in Philadelphia this week and will near its culmination Saturday night with a dinner honoring two noted lawyers who surprised some by coming down...

Tips for Lawyers from Legal Marketing Experts: Part 4 Intelligent Selling / Alvidas Jasin

Posted on April 30, 2010
In my last post, I shared my Twitter notes from Leveraging Marketing Tools to Increase Your Exposure presented by Ross Fishman at the 2010 Legal Marketing Association (#LMA10) Annual Conference. Ross is CEO of Fishman Marketing and an organizer of...

Donatucci Says Independence Helps Users of Register of Wills Office

Posted on April 22, 2010
By Amaris Elliott-Engel Of the Legal Staff While the functions of Philadelphia's clerk for criminal courts were recently taken over by the First Judicial District because of alleged problems in the office's bookkeeping and record-keeping, Philadelphia Register of Wills Ronald...

Lost in the Middle: Using Primacy and Recency to Emphasize Key Trial Points

Posted on April 20, 2010
By Melissa M. Gomez, Ph.D. I have seen it more times than I can count -- Well-intentioned and well-organized trial attorneys put their openings, closings, witnesses and witness examinations in a clear logical order. They make the introductions first; provide...

Fox Rothschild Names New CMO

Posted on April 15, 2010
By Gina Passarella Of the Legal Staff Almost two years after Fox Rothschild Chief Marketing Officer Jim Staples left for Cozen O?Connor, the firm has named his replacement. Fox Rothschild said Tuesday Heidi K. White, a three-year veteran of the...

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