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More lawyers getting in trouble

/ 09.Dec, 2011

We have blogged before about lawyers and Ponzi schemes.  The New Jersey State Supreme Court on Wednesday suspended the license of attorney Michael Kwasnik who . . .

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Best practices tip- Client Letters

/ 08.Dec, 2011

We have previously blogged about some of the good resources that are available from various professional liability insurers.  Recently Swiss Re (Westport Insurance) created a . . .

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Happy Thanksgiving from the Superior Court

/ 23.Nov, 2011

Last year, the Superior Court sent a shiver through the bar with its opinion in Barrick v. Holy Spirit Hospital.  The controversial decision ruled a . . .

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Roosevelt Hairston Sentenced

/ 21.Nov, 2011

We have been following the saga of former Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania attorney Roosevelt Hairston with interest.  We have written previously about the obvious ethical . . .

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Pennsylvania Professional Liability- Key Case

/ 18.Nov, 2011

An important initial question in legal malpractice cases is necessarily whether the attorney actually represented the client for the matter in which the attorney was . . .

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The e-mail scam for lawyers

/ 09.Nov, 2011

We have written before about the interesting ways e-mail scammers have been targeting lawyers.  In my e-mail bin this morning was the following scam e-mail from . . .

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Interesting Effects of a Controversial Law

/ 02.Nov, 2011

While not relevant to most attorneys in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, the recent controversial immigration law in Alabama raises a very interesting question regarding the . . .

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Treating Everything Put on the Internet as if It Could be Blown Up as an Exhibit

/ 01.Nov, 2011

In Zimmerman v. Weis Markets,  Judge Saylor of the Northumberland County Court of Common Pleas ordered plaintiff to reveal passwords to his MySpace and Facebook accounts. . . .

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Deadly Errors

/ 26.Oct, 2011

An interesting article in the Philadelphia Inquirer finds that nearly one third of the death penalty convictions in Pennsylvania have been reversed or sent back . . .

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More Quick Tips

/ 20.Oct, 2011

Know what’s happening in your office A filing is not filed until you see the stamp or electronic confirmation I gave it to the paralegal/secretary . . .

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