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Montco Courts Seek Waiver of Budget Cuts

Posted on December 02, 2010
By Amaris Elliott-Engel Of the Legal Staff After Montgomery County introduced a budget this week planning for a flat 5 percent cut for every county department, the county's common pleas court, district justices, drug court and correctional facility, among other...

Get Firm Management Advice with a Side of Breakfast

Posted on December 01, 2010
By Jaime Bochet Of the Legal Staff Calling all firm managing partners and executive committee members! What are the big questions you have about the coming year? How can you address the issues at the forefront of how you manage...

Corbett Calls on Lawyers to Help With Transition Teams

Posted on December 01, 2010
By Gina Passarella Of the Legal Staff The names of several prominent attorneys can be found throughout the list issued yesterday of more than 400 volunteers for Governor-elect Tom Corbett?s transition team. Corbett had already announced Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney...

Philadelphia's Female Chancellors Offer Advice to Fellow Women

Posted on December 01, 2010
By Fiona McCrone For the Legal ?You can be a leader wherever you are,? said Jane Leslie Dalton, partner at Duane Morris and former chancellor of the Philadelphia Bar Association, to a packed room of female attorneys yesterday. ?But nothing...

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What to Look For in an Expert Witness

Posted on November 30, 2010
By Terry Silver Special to the Legal In my 25 years' experience as an expert witness, I have come to recognize which skills serve me best in the courtroom. It has been an evolutionary process as I fine-tuned my own...

Rendell Signs Bill Shrinking Chesco's Bench

Posted on November 24, 2010
By Zack Needles Of the Legal Staff Gov. Edward G. Rendell signed into law Wednesday a bill that reduces the full complement of Chester County's common pleas bench from 14 judges to 13 judges until 2014. State Sen. Dominic F....

Gillison: Family Court Ordinances Expected to Pass

Posted on November 23, 2010
By Amaris Elliott-Engel Of the Legal Staff Everett Gillison, Philadelphia deputy mayor for public safety, said today that he expects City Council to pass two "technical ordinances" that would allow the city of Philadelphia to support a new Philadelphia family...

Barrick v. Holy Spirit Hospital Withdrawn

Posted on November 23, 2010
By James Ronca Special to the Legal Good news. On Nov. 19,the Pennsylvania Superior Court granted a petition for en banc re-argument in Barrick v. Holy Spirit Hospital, and the original opinion in this case has also been withdrawn. As...

UPDATED: Philly's Mortgage Foreclosure Program Goes to the White House

Posted on November 19, 2010
By Amaris Elliott-Engel Of the Legal Staff A Philadelphia judge and law clerk are participating today in a White House event on access to justice, describing Philadelphia's efforts to improve outcomes for litigants in mortgage foreclosure cases. Philadelphia Common Pleas...

Philadelphia Prison System, Following National Trend, Seeing Reduced Inmate Population: Report

Posted on November 18, 2010
By Amaris Elliott-Engel Of the Legal Staff Just as the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics reported the first drop in decades of average daily jail populations in large jurisdictions, the Philadelphia Prison System saw its number of inmates fall to...

Law Schools: What to Do About That Third Year??

Posted on November 17, 2010
By Jaime Bochet Of the Legal Staff In their most recent article, the Editorial Board of YL, the Legal?s special online section for young lawyers, addressed a topic that has a lot of people talking these days: law school reform....

Do Jury Issues Concern Transactional Attorneys?

Posted on November 16, 2010
By Melissa M. Gomez Special to the Legal I was recently asked to be a part of a panel at the ABA?s Forum on Franchising about jury issues. As a part of the presentation, I and the panel members used...

Phila. Judge Upholds Two Defense HRT Verdicts

Posted on November 12, 2010
By Amaris Elliott-Engel Of the Legal Staff A Philadelphia judge has denied the efforts of two plaintiffs to overturn defense verdicts issued in favor of drugmaker Wyeth. In each of the cases, plaintiffs alleged that cases of invasive breast cancer...

Phila. Bar Chancellor Race Drops Down to One

Posted on November 10, 2010
By Amaris Elliott-Engel Of the Legal Staff The race for chancellor of the Philadelphia Bar Association is no longer contested. Albert S. Dandridge III of Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis has withdrawn his candidacy to serve as the vice chancellor...

Is It Really So Wrong to NOT Want to Make Partner?

Posted on November 10, 2010
By Jaime Bochet Of the Legal Staff The Legal recently published two stories that address alternative career paths for associates in large law firms that led me to wonder about the pros and cons of non-partnership tracks. The first --...

Lawyers Need to Respond to ABA Re: Social Media Marketing by Dec. 15

Posted on November 08, 2010
By Gina F. Rubel Special to the Legal As a lawyer, social media enthusiast, and legal marketer, I believe it is important for lawyers to share their experiences, insights and opinions as they relate to the American Bar Association?s (ABA)...

Judge Asks Appeals Court to Uphold $7 Mil. Asbestos Verdict Against No-Show Defendant

Posted on November 04, 2010
By Amaris Elliott-Engel Of the Legal Staff A Philadelphia judge has asked the state Superior Court to uphold a $7 million damage award for a plaintiff against a defendant that failed to appear at trial. Philadelphia Common Pleas Court Senior...

Reporter's Notebook: Zoned Courts Begin at Philadelphia?s Criminal Justice Center

Posted on November 01, 2010
By Amaris Elliott-Engel Of the Legal Staff Philadelphia's criminal courts undertook a historic change today to centralize all of the city's preliminary hearings at the Criminal Justice Center in Center City and align the courtrooms with the city's six detective...

Castille: New Judges Will Get Paid by Court

Posted on October 29, 2010
By Amaris Elliott-Engel Of the Legal Staff When six jurists were appointed earlier this month despite a moratorium on filling judicial vacancies, Pennsylvania Chief Justice Ronald D. Castille floated the idea of telling the newly confirmed appointees that the judicial...

Villanova Law Has New Dean

Posted on October 29, 2010
Villanova University has announced that John Yukio Gotanda, J.D., has been named the sixth Dean of Villanova School of Law. The appointment is the conclusion of a national search that has been ongoing since 2009, spearheaded by a committee of...

Federal Pre-emption ? Seventh and Tenth Amendments Be Damned

Posted on October 28, 2010
By James R. Ronca and Adrianne Walvoord Special to the Legal Pre-emption is an arcane legal term that has been enjoying more press time than one might expect. It encompasses the decades-long battle between manufacturers and consumers with significance in...

Consistency Is Critical

Posted on October 25, 2010
By Melissa M. Gomez Special to the Legal Near the completion of a trial involving a contract dispute, I was working on closing arguments with the lead attorney. We were the plaintiff, the larger organization in the case. The defendants...

City Controller: Court's Overtime Jumps by 690 Percent

Posted on October 25, 2010
By Amaris Elliott-Engel Of the Legal Staff The First Judicial District's overtime jumped from almost $13,000 in the first quarter of the last fiscal year to more than $102,000 this fiscal year, according to a monthly economic report released today...

Former Navy Counsel Joins Cohen Seglias' Federal Contracting Group

Posted on October 21, 2010
By Zack Needles Of the Legal Staff Robert E. Little Jr., former senior associate counsel with the Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC), has joined Cohen Seglias Pallas Greenhall & Furman's Philadelphia office as a partner in its federal contracting group,...

Celebrating Pro Bono Efforts in Philadelphia and Beyond

Posted on October 19, 2010
By Gina F. Rubel In Philadelphia, the Delivery of Legal Services Committee of the Philadelphia Bar Association's Public Interest Section invites members of the Philadelphia legal community to participate in a range of pro bono recruitment events, legal clinics for...

K&L Gates Starts Task Force to Deal With Foreclosure Saga

Posted on October 19, 2010
By Gina Passarella Of the Legal Staff Much of the discussion surrounding the dust-up over mortgage companies? foreclosure practices in recent weeks has focused on how consumers have been affected by confusing or fraudulent paperwork and threats of foreclosure...

Bucks County Judge-to-be Sees Lag in Domestic Cases

Posted on October 18, 2010
By Amaris Elliott-Engel Of the Legal Staff As James M. McMaster of Bensalem winds down his practice in the next month before taking the oath of office to become a Bucks County Common Pleas judge sometime next month, he said...

Public Policy Reason to Protect Disclosure of Reserve Information

Posted on October 15, 2010
There is a sound public policy rationale to protect disclosure of reserve information in discovery. This idea was brought to my attention by attorney Bryon Kaster of our Insurance Litigation / Bad Faith Discovery unit in Harrisburg. Simply stated, if...

Another Court Hearing Set Over Phila. Family Courthouse

Posted on October 13, 2010
By Amaris Elliott-Engel Of the Legal Staff A hearing has been scheduled next week in front of U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Eric Frank for the judge to consider whether the private developer who mortgaged the air and surface rights to the...

Phila. Criminal Case Clerk Now Formally Part of FJD

Posted on October 12, 2010
By Amaris Elliott-Engel Of the Legal Staff At 10:44 a.m. today, the centuries-old Philadelphia Clerk of Quarter Sessions ceased to be an independently elected office as Mayor Michael A. Nutter signed legislation that officially merged the clerk into the First...

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