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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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Deadly Errors
/ 26.Oct, 2011An 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, 2011Know 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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Top Types of Legal Malpractice Errors
/ 11.Oct, 2011Here is a nice chart showing the top types of errors made by attorneys in Philadelphia (Thanks to Westport/SwissRe for the chart): Top Types of . . .
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Professional negligence that could cost a life
/ 10.Oct, 2011Doctors regularly face the most severe consequence in malpractice situations. A doctor’s malpractice can kill a patient. For most lawyers, the consequences of legal malpractice . . .
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