Editorial Board

April 11, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

The Pennsylvania General Assembly is getting lots of positive press for its swift reaction to the news that several state representatives from Philadelphia accepted gobs of cash from a wired lobbyist. We do not join in that praise.

By The Editorial Board

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March 25, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

In the past, the struggle over gay rights and gay marriage has taken place on legal and religious grounds. Does the federal Constitution or a state constitution guarantee equal rights to individuals, whatever their sexual conduct may be?

By TLI Editorial Board

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March 20, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Arabella Mansfield became the first woman to practice law in the United States after passing the Iowa bar in 1869. Here in Pennsylvania, Carrie Burnham Kilgore became the first woman admitted to practice in the state in 1886 (after graduating from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1883 and fighting for her admittance for the next three years).

By The YL Editorial Board

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March 18, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

In rejecting the president's nomination of Debo Adegbile to the position of assistant attorney general in charge of the Civil Rights Division, the U.S. Senate did a grave disservice to the nation's legal profession and to the protection of constitutional rights.

By The Editorial Board

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February 20, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

In July 2013, Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane drew national media attention when she announced that she would not defend Pennsylvania's version of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in a lawsuit filed against the state challenging the act's constitutionality.

By The YL Editorial Board

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January 16, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

What is the most important and misunderstood relationship in the legal profession? Which relationship in the legal profession causes more ill will than any other relationship?

By The YL Editorial Board

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December 19, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

Recently, The Legal published an article that asked, "Is the Golden Age of Trial Attorneys Over?" The answer from this board is no.

By the YL Editorial Board

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November 21, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

Even as you read this article, your mind might be running through the projects you left on your desk, the emails that have come in since you put your phone down, or the new assignments you will receive tomorrow.

By YL Editorial Board

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December 27, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

Scuttlebutt, hearsay and innuendo have long suggested that Philadelphia Traffic Court might not be the model of blind justice, but the scope and extent of judicial improprieties that are detailed in the report conducted by Chadwick Associates, commissioned by the state Supreme Court, is mind-boggling, even to jaded Philadelphians.

By The Editorial Board

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December 04, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania has amended its Local Criminal Rules significantly to expand discovery at a criminal sentencing. Middle District Local Criminal Rule 32.1, which became effective December 1, requires mutual discovery between the prosecutor and defense counsel of all material and documents supplied to the probation officer who writes an initial report to the judge about the defendant's criminal conduct involved in the case.

By The Editorial Board

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