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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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The Legal Intelligence
/ 20.Dec, 2013Swartz Campbell attorney, Josh J.T. Byrne, Esquire, has an article on Prior-Knowledge Provisions and Reporting of Claims, published on the Legal Intelligencer’s website.
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Assignment of Legal Malpractice Claims
/ 16.Dec, 2013We previously noted the limited case law in Pennsylvania regarding the assignment of legal malpractice actions runs contrary to the national consensus on this subject. . . .
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Attorney Wins $5.75 Million Award In Legal Malpractice Claim, Based on Legal Malpractice Claim
/ 05.Dec, 2013In November of 1998, Virginia based contracts attorney Bruce McLaughlin, was convicted of on eight counts of sexual abuse. The claims of sexual abuse were . . .
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New Pennsylvania Law Limits Admissibility of Apologies by Doctors
/ 13.Nov, 2013The Pennsylvania legislature unanimously voted to approve, and Governor Tom Corbett signed into law, an act designed to allow medical professionals to apologize to patients . . .
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