We have chronicled the ubiquitous nature of attorney involvement in Ponzi schemes. However, the Ponzi/Attorney connection is not a phenomenon unique to slick Florida lawyers . . .
Read More..The Blog of LegalTimes reports on oral arguments in a legal malpractice action by Boston-Maine Airways Corp. against Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton. Summary judgment . . .
Read More..Pennsylvania has had more than its share of judicial conduct issues in the news over the last several months. From the top (conviction of Supreme . . .
Read More..On February 19, 2013, the Superior Court issued an opinion in O’Kelly v. Dawson, 421 WDA 2012. Superior Court’s opinion by Judge Wecht upheld a . . .
Read More..An article in the Philadelphia Inquirer over the weekend raised questions about whether Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Seamus McCaffery should have disclosed referral fees received . . .
Read More..Lawyers and alcohol have a long history together, both in fiction and real life. From Dickens’ Sydney Carton to Paul Newman’s Frank Gavin, the literary . . .
Read More..Claims Journal has a nice roundup of cases on whether a defense counsel retained by a primary insurer has an actionable attorney-client relationship with an . . .
Read More..Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin was convicted today of six of the seven criminal charges which she was facing. Justice Orie Melvin was . . .
Read More..We have been following the progress of Gunn v. Minton as it moved through the courts. The Supreme Court of the United States has now . . .
Read More..Another installment of our occasional series on recent Pennsylvania attorney discipline. On Valentine’s Day, the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania accepted the . . .
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