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Rendell Sounds Off on Merit Selection, Pa. Primary, etc.

Posted on March 26, 2008
Pennsylvania Gov. Edward G. Rendell told a sold-out crowd of young lawyers mingling in the lounge setting of G that the fresh push for the appointment of appellate judges is needed because the state?s elected system of judges is a terrible system for diversity...

Nutter?s Plan for Prison System Overhaul Moves Forward

Posted on March 25, 2008
Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter today signed an executive order to develop a plan of action to tackle overcrowding in the city?s prisons that have resulted in the double bunking and triple bunking of prisoners, a number of lawsuits and a system that is 35 percent over capacity...

Anapol Schwartz Adds Associate, Subtracts Office

Posted on March 24, 2008
Philadelphia personal injury firm Anapol Schwartz Weiss Cohan Feldman & Smalley acquired new associate Adam J. Pantano from Philadelphia litigation firm Deasey Mahoney & Valentini on Feb. 21. Pantano has experience in premises liability, product liability, toxic tort and medical malpractice litigation but, as a certified mobile crane operator, is somewhat specially qualified in the [...

Shareholder Leaves Anapol Schwartz for Small Firm in Media

Posted on March 21, 2008
Kevin R. Marciano has joined 6-lawyer personal injury firm Cherry Fieger & Cherry in Media, Pa., as a partner, effectively changing the firm name to Cherry Fieger & Marciano. Marciano said it was his long-running working relationship with firm head David R...

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Saul Ewing Names Foster to Executive Committee

Posted on March 19, 2008
Constance B. Foster, a longtime Saul Ewing partner and former Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner, has been named to Saul Ewing?s executive committee. The seven-member committee serves as the firm?s managing body. This is Foster?s second time on the firm?s executive committee...

Cappy Recovering From Heart Surgery

Posted on March 18, 2008
Peter Hall is reporting on Pennsylvania Law Weekly?s Web site that former Pennsylvania Chief Justice Ralph J. Cappy underwent triple coronary artery bypass surgery Thursday. According to Hall, Cappy had the surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center...

Alva Wants to Represent Small Firms as Bar Leader

Posted on March 11, 2008
When Daniel-Paul “Danny” Alva’s wife received a clean bill of health from her lymphoma cancer last year, Alva began gearing up for a bid to become the Philadelphia Bar Association’s chancellor in 2011, chancellor-elect in 2010 and vice-chancellor in 2009...

Legal Strategy versus Media Management: When a Governor Faces Federal Charges

Posted on March 11, 2008
It’s all over the media: reports of an FBI wiretap that has identified the Democratic governor of New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer as the alleged recent client of a prostitution ring, the Emperors Club VIP. It seems like Monica Lewinsky and Bill Clinton all over again - but, this time, it is worse...

State Senator Weighs In on Merit Selection Proposal

Posted on March 10, 2008
While Gov. Edward G. Rendell pitched an appointment process for the state?s appellate courts a year ago, State Sen. Jane M. Earll, R-Erie, said that she is sponsoring the judicial merit selection proposal of her own volition and because of her long-standing interest in merit selection...

Alycia Lane: Does She Have a Remedy for Her Termination?

Posted on March 10, 2008
On Jan. 7, 2008, local television station CBS 3 fired its popular anchorwoman Alycia Lane approximately three weeks after Lane was arrested and charged with allegedly assaulting a New York policewoman.� The arrest was the coup de grace in a year when Lane was prominently featured in The New York Post?s gossip column ?Page 6? with [...

Smaller Firm Atmosphere Makes Big Difference

Posted on March 07, 2008
In speaking to a number of firm leaders last week about the benefits of working at a smaller firm as opposed to a megafirm, I found many of them agreed that perhaps the biggest benefit to small and midsized firm life is the closeness of the office atmosphere...

Reed Smith Creates 225-Lawyer Financial Industry Group

Posted on March 07, 2008
Reed Smith has brought all of its financial industry attorneys under one umbrella through the creation of a 225-lawyer financial industry group. The new practice group will include attorneys from all of the firm’s offices whose practices focus on the financial services industry, including attorneys who specialize in finance, litigation, regulation, bankruptcy and restructuring, investment management, [...

Lawyer Reprimanded for Fashion Choice

Posted on March 05, 2008
Recently, in a Milwaukee County courthouse, state prosecutor Warren Zier was reprimanded by Judge William Sosnay for wearing an ascot to court. His rebuke has garnered media attention from the Wall Street Journal to the Chicago Sun-Times. The ascot is a wide cravat of patterned silk cloth which, in England, was traditionally gray and only worn [...

Thorp Reed Expands In Phila. Through Merger With Kittredge Donley

Posted on March 03, 2008
Pittsburgh-based Thorp Reed & Armstrong has gained a larger presence in Philadelphia through a merger with Kittredge Donley Elson Fullem & Embick. Kittredge Donley has 11 attorneys with the five name partners, two of counsel and four associates, all of whom will be joining Thorp Reed effective March 1...

Wolf Block Downsizes ? Its Name

Posted on February 28, 2008
Wolf Block Schorr & Solis-Cohen, and its Roseland, N.J., branch Wolf Block Brach Eichler, will soon operate under a shorter name. The firm said it would be known just as Wolf Block effective Feb. 29. “The unification of our firm under one name brings us in line with the way our clients and others in the marketplace [...

Q: What do Aliens, Pit Pulls, Scantily Clad Adults and Children Bouncing Balls have in Common?

Posted on February 14, 2008
Q: What do Aliens, Pit Pulls, Scantily Clad Adults and Children Bouncing Balls have in Common? A. They?re all impermissible advertising images for lawyers ? at least somewhere in the U.S. Last week, an article about restrictions on legal advertisements hit the front page of The Wall Street Journal...

Garcia Running for Chancellor

Posted on February 14, 2008
Rudy Garcia, a shareholder at Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, is throwing his hat in the ring for this year?s election for chancellor of the Philadelphia Bar Association in 2011, chancellor-elect in 2010 and vice-chancellor in 2009. Garcia has been active in the bar association for several years, including serving three terms on the Board of Governors...

When the Media Gets that Unintended E-mail

Posted on February 08, 2008
Yesterday, Mike Armstrong of the Philadelphia Inquirer, reported on his blog,� ?PhillyInc.,? that an e-mail message was accidentally sent by a Philadelphia attorney in a large law firm to a New York Times reporter. The e-mail contained ?confidential information about settlement negotiations? between a pharmaceutical company and the U...

Nutter Won?t Oppose Family Court Site ? If State Pays

Posted on February 08, 2008
Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter won?t oppose the proposed placement of a unified Family Court building at 15th and Arch streets in Center City if the state pays for the lion?s share of a building that is projected to cost at least $200 million, Nutter press secretary Doug Oliver said in an interview last week...

Transition Work Is Fun?

Posted on February 08, 2008
One thing was clear during a group interview last month with six associates at Hangley Aronchick Segal & Pudlin who worked on the Mayor Michael Nutter?s law department transition team. They had fun ? and learned a lot ? by spending many, many volunteer hours during the holiday season working on a transition team that Hangley [...

Sad News: The Passing of Judge Cipriani

Posted on February 07, 2008
We?ve all heard it said that ?not all news is good news.? This couldn?t be truer when it comes to the passing of Judge Nicholas Cipriani. As a third generation Italian-American attorney who was born and raised in South Philadelphia, my life is touched with memories of Judge Cipriani from as far back as I can [...

Sigman Considering DA Run

Posted on February 05, 2008
During an intensive round of phone calls that I made two weeks ago about possible candidates vying to succeed Philadelphia District Attorney Lynne Abraham, I wasn?t able to get a hold of Scott Sigman, who joined the Bochetto & Lentz firm in 2005 after working as an assistant district attorney...

McCain on Lawyer Jokes?.

Posted on February 05, 2008
On February 4th, the Wall Street Journal Law Blog reported about a lawyer joke being delivered by Arizona Senator, John McCain on the campaign trail. Link: http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2008/02/04/john-mccain-not-a-lawyer-but-loves-a-good-lawyer-joke/ Essentially, John McCain, a non-lawyer up against a pool of JDs has been delivering the following joke along the campaign trail: He asks, ?What is the difference between a catfish [...

Midsized Firms Bulk Up Staff in 2007

Posted on January 29, 2008
In researching for a piece last week on how Pennsylvania midsized firms fared in 2007 and their projections for 2008, the majority of firm leaders I spoke to reported modest to significant increases in revenue and clientele last year. Of course, more business often necessitates more staffing and many midsized firms across the state got a [...

News From Orrick is? There?s No News

Posted on January 24, 2008
Word on the street was that Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe was looking into opening an office in the City of Brotherly Love. While most international firms based out-of-town have opted for New York, D.C., or even Delaware rather than Philadelphia, Orrick?s interest made some sense given its recent hire of longtime Morgan Lewis & Bockius partner [...

Court Gives Out Pro Bono Publico Awards

Posted on January 24, 2008
Attorney Mary Moran lived up to the award she received for her pro bono work. During the First Judicial District?s second annual Pro Bono Publico Awards ceremony last Thursday, Moran volunteered for the several judges gathered at the ceremony to assign her more pro bono cases...

Gormley to Replace Cappy?

Posted on January 17, 2008
Peter Hall is reporting in our sister publication, Pennsylvania Law Weekly, that Duquesne University law professor Kenneth E. Gormley has emerged as a possible front-runner to win the appointment to replace retired former Chief Justice Ralph J. Cappy...

Philly Court Stats Show Sharp Drop in Class Actions

Posted on January 14, 2008
The Philadelphia court system has seen a sharp drop in the number of class actions filed between 2005 and 2007, reports Charles Mapp Sr., the deputy civil administrator in the civil division of the First Judicial District today. In 2005, 56 class actions were filed in the FJD...

Ballard Spahr Creates Subprime Lending Team

Posted on January 08, 2008
Just a few days after the American Dialect Society named ?subprime? as its word of the year, Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll created a practice around litigation and business issues that might stem from this summer?s subprime lending crisis. The group will offer legal services and guidance to clients regarding the litigation, government action and business [...

Cozen O?Connor Names New CFO

Posted on January 08, 2008
Cozen O’Connor named John A. Curran as its new chief financial officer. Curran replaces former CFO David W. Ellman who moved into the firm’s chief operating officer position in August 2007. Curran will be responsible for conducting strategic financial analysis for the firm, overseeing its annual budget process and decision support analyses...

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