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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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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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Gaming the System
/ 24.Aug, 2011Many legal malpractice actions arise out of underlying problems attorneys have that are unrelated to the legal matters they are handling. According to various studies, . . .
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Funky Malpractice
/ 26.Jul, 2011Malpractice litigation has a funky new participant. Parliament Funkadelic star George Clinton has sued his former attorneys for allegedly failing to bring a RICO action on . . .
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2011 Discipline Review
/ 13.Jul, 2011With a little more than half of the year gone, it is a good time to take a look at why lawyers have been receiving . . .
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Legal Malpractice Claims on the Rise
/ 07.Jul, 2011We recently told you about the continuing good news concerning the numbers of medical malpractice actions in Pennsylvania. The news with respect to legal malpractice . . .
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Tort Reform Bill Signed
/ 30.Jun, 2011Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett signed into law the Fair Share Act, a tort reform bill. S.B. 1131 makes significant changes to Pennsylvania’s joint and several . . .
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Who and what are you responsible for?
/ 22.Jun, 2011Bonnie Sweeten, the infamous “hoax mom,” is back in the news following her guilty plea to a count of wire fraud and a count of . . .
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