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Overbilling and Theft of Client Funds Leads to Guilty Plea for Former Spector Gadon Associate
/ 20.Mar, 2014In December 2012, Gomer Thomas Williams, a former Spector Gadon & Rosen associate, was disbarred on consent. In late January, he was indicted on a . . .
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Interesting Ruling in Dougherty v. Philadelphia Newspapers
/ 17.Mar, 2014One of the more intently watched cases in Philadelphia recently has been the ongoing battle between union leader John J. Dougherty and Philadelphia Newspapers, LLC, . . .
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Footnote on Dewey & LeBoeuf Debacle
/ 14.Mar, 2014Last week we posted about the indictments arising out of the disintegration of Dewey & LeBoeuf. The New York Times just ran a very interesting . . .
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Pennsylvania Supreme Court Split on Whether Physical Manifestations of Emotional Distress Qualifies as Bodily Injury for Insurance Purposes
/ 05.Mar, 2014Pennsylvania Supreme Court Split on Whether Physical Manifestations of Emotional Distress Qualifies as Bodily Injury for Insurance Purposes Whether a claimant’s physical symptoms associated with . . .
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New CLE Ethics Requirement
/ 17.Feb, 2014Pa.R.C.L.E. 108 (e) has changed to increase the number of credits lawyers may earn by remote methods from four to six credits a year. The . . .
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$23.7 Million Settlement in Pennsylvania Legal Malpractice Lawsuit
/ 11.Feb, 2014K & L Gates and attorney Sanford Ferguson entered into a $23.7 million settlement with bankruptcy trustee Mark Kirschner late last month. The legal malpractice . . .
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Suppression of Evidence in Mesothelioma Cases
/ 05.Feb, 2014On January 10, 2014, a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge George Hodges entered a sixty-five page “Order Estimating Aggregate Liability” for Garlock Sealing Technologies, LLC. Garlock manufactured . . .
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Article About Assignment of Legal Malpractice Cases
/ 03.Feb, 2014Swartz Campbell partner, Josh J.T. Byrne, Esquire, is the author of a Legal Intelligencer article on the law regarding assignment of legal malpractice cases in . . .
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Pennsylvania Disciplinary Statistics for 2013
/ 28.Jan, 2014It was another busy year for the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. Over the last year thirty-six attorneys were disbarred, fifty . . .
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Legal Malpractice
/ 09.Jan, 2014Tippi Hedren, the actress best known for her part in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds, recently had a nearly $1.5 legal malpractice verdict affirmed on appeal. . . .
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