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How to Be Productive During the Holiday Season ? Part II

Posted on December 09, 2009
Following last week?s article on ideas to make this holiday season more productive, here are a few strategies to try with your team in the firm and for business development also. Happy Holidays! Hold a team development activity. If you...

Drinker Biddle Grows in California, Adds Century City Office

Posted on December 08, 2009
By Gina Passarella Of the Legal Staff Drinker Biddle & Reath expanded its West Coast presence Tuesday. The firm said it added six attorneys in the Los Angeles area, along with a new Century City office. Partners George T. Caplan...

How to Lose a Client in 10 Days, Really?

Posted on December 07, 2009
I recently attended the American Bar Association?s law practice management section?s law firm marketing strategies conference at which numerous lawyers, marketing partners and other legal professionals from across the country gathered to learn how to integrate key marketing principles into...

Rendell Appoints Criminal Defense Lawyer and Bar Leader to Luzerne Co. Court

Posted on December 04, 2009
By Leo Strupczewski Of the Legal Staff Gov. Edward G. Rendell has nominated a Forty Fort, Pa., attorney to fill one of the vacancies on the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas. Joseph M. Cosgrove, a criminal defense attorney and...

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Rendell Appoints Criminal Defense Lawyer and Bar Leader to Luzerne Co. Court

Posted on December 04, 2009
By LEO STRUPCZEWSKI Of the Legal Staff Gov. Edward G. Rendell has nominated a Forty Fort, Pa., attorney to fill one of the vacancies on the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas. Joseph M. Cosgrove, a criminal defense attorney and...

How to Be Productive During the Holiday Season

Posted on December 04, 2009
The crazy holiday season? why does it make our hearts beat faster knowing we have so much more ?to do? and so little time to achieve it all? Why is it we both love and hate this time of year?...

The Truth About Jury Research

Posted on December 03, 2009
What Jury Research Can?t Do I just had an article published in the November issue of ?The Jury Expert.? It is a piece I wrote called ?Jury Research for Settlement: The Price is Right?? Not 10 hours after the publication...

Morgan Lewis, Other Firms Get Claims by Former Thelen Employees Thrown Out

Posted on December 02, 2009
By Gina Passarella Of the Legal Staff In Monday?s article ?Buyer Beware: Firms Look Closely at Legal Liabilities of Merger Partners,? The Legal mentioned a suit Morgan Lewis & Bockius and other firms were fighting that was brought by a...

Congress Might Vote on Estate Tax, or Might Not

Posted on December 01, 2009
The Democrats are divided into their usual factions, and the Republicans aren?t sure whom they represent. It?s possible that the House will vote for an extension of the current estate tax rates shortly, but as usual, no one is sure...

Superior Court Recount Results Due This Week

Posted on November 30, 2009
By Amaris Elliott-Engel Of the Legal Staff All 67 of Pennsylvania's election boards had until noon today to submit the results of the first statewide recount spurred as a matter of law in a close state Superior Court race. However,...

Trujillo Appointed to Gaming Control Board

Posted on November 25, 2009
By Gina Passarella Of the Legal Staff Pennsylvania?s growing, sometimes troubled gaming industry has often reached out for the investments, leadership and counsel of the state?s legal community. That connection continues with the appointment by Gov. Edward G...

Judge Diane Welsh Details Qualities That Distinguish Successful Women?Part III

Posted on November 25, 2009
Judge Diane Welsh shared some strategies for success at 2009 Pennsylvania Bar Association Commission on Women in the Profession Annual Retreat. The following are her remarks continued from Parts I and II. ?Balance work and family obligations ? Just as...

Illegal Aliens? Eligibility for Workers? Comp Benefits Still Under Debate

Posted on November 24, 2009
In my last post, I discussed the issue of whether illegal aliens are eligible for unemployment benefits as a general rule. A related yet equally significant issue pertains to whether illegal aliens are similarly eligible for workers? compensation benefits...

Muni Court Judge Agrees to Settle Ethics Dispute Over Defunct PAC

Posted on November 23, 2009
By Amaris Elliott-Engel Of the Legal Staff The Philadelphia Board of Ethics, a Philadelphia judge and the treasurer of political action committee started by the late political power broker Carol Campbell have settled a case that could have turned into...

Kessler Goes Before Congress Today for Spot on U.S. Board

Posted on November 19, 2009
By Gina Passarella Of the Legal Staff Alan Kessler?s Senate confirmation hearing today may not be as closely followed or contentious as U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor?s, but the board he?s trying to keep a seat on is facing...

Family Business Planning in High Gear

Posted on November 18, 2009
The combination of continued low interest rates, a struggling economy and uncertainty about taxes makes planning important right now. IRS interest rates used in valuing various kinds of gifting techniques fell again in November, making the use of Grantor Retained...

Wettick Puts Gunn Case to Use

Posted on September 29, 2009
A trial court has used its own reasoning on severance and stay to deny bad faith discovery in an underlying contract dispute. On Sept. 9, in Wutz v. State Farm Insurance Co., Judge R. Stanton Wettick denied a plaintiff discovery...

Are Illegal Aliens Eligible for Unemployment Benefits?

Posted on September 28, 2009
The answer to this question seems pretty straightforward. Aliens who are not authorized to work in the United States are not eligible for unemployment insurance benefits, or UI, in any state. Unfortunately, over the years, illegal aliens have been paid...

September 25, 2009 ? More Thoughts from the G-20 ? The Equinox

Posted on September 25, 2009
While driving from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh on Wednesday afternoon, I was able to watch the course of the sun through the afternoon and early evening sky as I headed west. Doing so caused me to think about the end of...

September 2 5 , 2009 ? More Thoughts from the G-20 ? The Dream Assignment

Posted on September 25, 2009
Buried in the innumerable articles on this week?s G-20 economic summit in Pittsburgh, I noticed an offhand comment upon which only a lawyer might fixate. It was something to the effect of the following: ?The G-20 operates without a permanent...

Two Confirmed for Philadelphia Common Pleas Bench

Posted on September 25, 2009
By Amaris Elliott-Engel Of the Legal Staff Attorneys Robert P. Coleman, an associate with Segal McCambridge Singer & Mahoney, and Donna M. Woelpper, who is sitting as a juvenile court master in Philadelphia family court, have been confirmed by the...

September 25, 2009 ? More Thoughts from the G-20 ? Random Musings

Posted on September 25, 2009
Sometimes when you spend too much time alone in a deserted office overlooking the special security zone of a city hosting a summit conference or in a hotel room close to an airport, your mind begins to wander and you...

September 24, 2009 ? More Thoughts from the G-20

Posted on September 24, 2009
We have all heard the phrase so often that it has become a bit of a clich�. Yet, like most such phrases, it is a clich� because the thought at its core makes sense and thus makes it something that...

September 23, 2009 ? Thoughts from the G-20

Posted on September 24, 2009
It's 10:00 p.m. on the evening of Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009, and I am in a hotel room near the Pittsburgh Airport. Tomorrow the leaders of the G-20 member nations and various other invited countries and groups will descend on...

September 24, 2009 ? More Thoughts From the G-20 ? The Commute

Posted on September 24, 2009
As lawyers, we sometimes undertake unusual assignments for clients. However, my unusual assignment for today was not on behalf of a client. Instead it was to get from a hotel near the Pittsburgh Airport to the Duane Morris office on...

The New Economic Realities of Family Court

Posted on September 23, 2009
I have had a hiatus from The Legal Intelligencer blog, but I am now comfortably situated at Duane Morris and Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott is lucky to have my friend, Mike Meehan, and many of my former Wolf Block...

Greg Jordan Nominated to Fourth Term as Reed Smith Leader

Posted on September 22, 2009
By Gina Passarella Of the Legal Staff Reed Smith?s partnership elected its global managing partner and chairman, Gregory B. Jordan, to his fourth-consecutive three-year term in that role. Jordan faced a brief challenge in the race from Philadelphia partner John...

Have Class Actions Become Like the Wild Kingdom?

Posted on September 22, 2009
Is there a natural order among the lawyers in a class action? If we extrapolate from the recent comments of two federal judges, there is. In April, U.S. District Judge Faith Hochberg of the District of New Jersey described plaintiffs...

Attention Employers: Independent Contractors Can Now Pursue Race Discrimination Claims, Too

Posted on September 21, 2009
[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] Local employers should expect to see an increase in race discrimination...

After Two Months, Montco Behavioral Health Court Expands

Posted on September 21, 2009
By Amaris Elliott-Engel Of the Legal Staff Montgomery County's new court program for defendants with mental illnesses or other behavioral issues has increased in size from four defendants to 14 defendants after two months in operation. After a year-and-a-half of...

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