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Opening up wrongful use of civil proceedings
/ 30.Dec, 2011The Superior Court has issued an opinion which could spell big trouble for Pennsylvania attorneys. The court’s decision in Betts Industries, Inc. v. Heelan, Pa. . . .
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Another Pennsylvania Jurist Investigated
/ 20.Dec, 2011The Supreme Court has removed Judge Michael J. Sullivan, the administrative judge for Philadelphia’s traffic court, amid an FBI probe into allegations of ticket fixing. . . .
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More lawyers getting in trouble
/ 09.Dec, 2011We 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, 2011We 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, 2011Last 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, 2011We 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, 2011An 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, 2011We 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, 2011While 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, 2011In 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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