Aleeza Furman

April 08, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

The 11 cases set to go before the justices touch on a range of impactful issues, including federal authority to shape tort law, insurance coverage for COVID-19 business interruption claims, and the burden of proof required to demonstrate rule violations in lawyer discipline matters.

By Aleeza Furman

5 minute read

April 03, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

"What's at stake is the question of what the proper application of the forum non conveniens doctrine is and what it's going to be going forward," said David Senoff, a partner at First Law Strategy Group.

By Aleeza Furman

3 minute read

April 02, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

"They wanted this trial," Becker said. "Now they come to you crying for the unfairness of it all."

By Aleeza Furman

3 minute read

April 01, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

"Within the next several months, the court will be closing the Risperdal, Essure and Elmiron mass tort programs, as the lawyers and self-represented parties work through the remaining cases on the docket," Judge Joshua Roberts, head of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Complex Litigation Center, said.

By Aleeza Furman

4 minute read

March 29, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

"This allegedly new evidence of fraud undermines the very existence of an enforceable settlement agreement and, in fact, makes any such agreement, if one existed, voidable, not enforceable," Judge Nitza Quiñones Alejandro ruled.

By Aleeza Furman

4 minute read

March 28, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

The ruling reduces the $25 million punitive damages award in Clemmons v. Lehr to $1 million, shrinking what had been one of the court's largest verdicts of 2023 to a total of $2.2 million.

By Aleeza Furman

3 minute read

March 28, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

"The city's refusal to timely pay counsel fees and legally mandated statutory interest is pervasive for court appointed attorneys in Philadelphia," one attorney wrote in a motion for contempt. "This practice is unfair to both attorneys and clients, undermines the effective assistance of counsel, as well as the administration of justice."

By Aleeza Furman

6 minute read

March 26, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

Lamb McErlane partner Joseph Podraza Jr., representing Kline & Specter, called Bosworth's motion "a transparent attempt to pre-empt our soon-to-be filed motion against him."

By Aleeza Furman

4 minute read

March 22, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

According to defense counsel, the mistrial was based on a mix-up over interpreters that was improperly pinned on the defendants.

By Aleeza Furman

3 minute read

March 22, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

"The agreement is for you to do the job at a professional standard. I don't think that's a surprise," Ellen Brotman said. "It sounds like the attorneys here had a creative argument about why that isn't so or wasn't so in this case, and the court didn't accept it."

By Aleeza Furman

3 minute read