Aleeza Furman

January 19, 2023 | The Legal Intelligencer

A teacher injured in a vehicle crash while chaperoning a school trip reached an $11.5 million settlement Tuesday in her products liability suit claiming defects in the bus she had been riding led her to sustain a traumatic brain injury.

By Aleeza Furman

3 minute read

January 18, 2023 | The Legal Intelligencer

An attorney told The Legal his first thought upon seeing the proposal was, "Why are you making our lives more difficult?"

By Aleeza Furman

4 minute read

January 17, 2023 | The Legal Intelligencer

'The believability and the credibility is probably the most crucial thing' when trying a case in a county that is seen as less plaintiff-friendly, Thomas Sacchetta said.

By Aleeza Furman

3 minute read

January 13, 2023 | The Legal Intelligencer

"There's two major issues that have been popping up and appear to be more frequent than in pre-pandemic times," said ethics attorney Josh Byrne of Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin, "and those are attorneys berating other counsel or parties and attorneys coaching witnesses."

By Aleeza Furman

4 minute read

January 12, 2023 | The Legal Intelligencer

The incoming president said members were drawn to participate more in programs that went beyond professional development and touched on the association's relatively new focus on attorney well-being.

By Aleeza Furman

3 minute read

January 11, 2023 | The Legal Intelligencer

The vote came a week and a half after an order from Commonwealth Court Judge Ellen Ceisler determined the seven articles of impeachment brought against Krasner failed to allege conduct that could support his removal from office.

By Aleeza Furman

2 minute read

January 10, 2023 | The Legal Intelligencer

"The question is, do you get both remedies?" said plaintiffs attorney Kenneth Behrend, or, "Is this some new carveout to the general rule?"

By Aleeza Furman

3 minute read

January 09, 2023 | The Legal Intelligencer

Judge John Gallagher said the defendant offered no explanation as to why it would not produce the documents, something that was made more suspect in light of an earlier incident in which the defendant made factual misstatements about where its employees had worked.

By Aleeza Furman

3 minute read

January 06, 2023 | The Legal Intelligencer

In a motion to compel new testimony of a key party, Jonathan Landesman said Zachary Grayson "sought to derail the deposition with improper objections at every turn," and that Grayson's conduct forced Landesman to end the deposition early.

By Aleeza Furman

4 minute read

January 05, 2023 | The Legal Intelligencer

A Philadelphia jury awarded $25 million to a former mechanic with lung disease and his wife, in what the plaintiffs' attorney said is an unusually high asbestos verdict.

By Aleeza Furman

3 minute read