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Hank Grezlak

Hank Grezlak

Hank Grezlak is the editor-in-chief for ALM's legal theme desks and regional publications and oversees Law.com, and has been covering courts and law firms since 1993. He has won numerous awards for his journalism, including several for investigative reporting, columns, and enterprise reporting. In 2016 he was awarded the G.D. Crain, Jr. Award for Distinguished Editorial Career.

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March 29, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

If Pa. Supreme Court Won't Reform JCB, Then Someone Else Should

When the Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued its progress report on its response to reform proposals made by the Interbranch Commission on Juvenile Justice in the wake of the Luzerne County Courthouse scandal, it was pretty thin when it came to judicial ethics and the judicial conduct system.

By Hank Grezlak

6 minute read

October 01, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

Firm Ripped Over 'Ploy' to Keep Malpractice Case in Home County

A Butler County law firm has been harshly criticized by the state Superior Court for filing a declaratory judgment action against a former client, because the court said it was nothing more than a "ploy" to have the former client's legal malpractice action tried in the firm's home county.

By Hank Grezlak

7 minute read

March 06, 2006 | The Legal Intelligencer

A Saving Grace Period

Employers can't be hit with penalties for choosing to hold off paying a workers' compensation award while applying for supersedeas, the state Supreme Court has ruled.

By Hank Grezlak

8 minute read

July 07, 2008 | The Legal Intelligencer

Courts Should Leave Secrets to the Spies

The 3rd Circuit might be one of the most respected courts in the country and it produced the newest U.S. Supreme Court justice, but recently it made a mistake of epic proportions.

By Hank Grezlak

8 minute read

May 10, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

Pa. Supreme Court Gets Serious About Recusal of Judges

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court recently signaled that it is going to be taking a much closer look at how trial court judges handle themselves and not hesitate to remove them from cases if there's a question about their impartiality.

By Hank Grezlak

6 minute read

December 05, 2008 | The Legal Intelligencer

In Ailing Economy, Public Interest Community Counts on Firms' Support

Did you see a panel of experts the other day declared that we've been in a recession since last December? More importantly, did you react as I did by saying: "Thanks a lot, geniuses. It took you a year to figure that out?"

By Hank Grezlak

7 minute read

July 24, 2006 | The Legal Intelligencer

A Chance to Get a Peek at the Profession's Future

One of the pleasures of being the editor-in-chief for a couple of newspapers is getting out and meeting the people we cover and who read us. Because after all, newspapers are a part of the their communities and are meant to serve the people in them.

By Hank Grezlak

7 minute read

January 02, 2006 | The Legal Intelligencer

Now Intelligent Design Advocates Face Uphill Fight

Like an evolutionary mistake, intelligent design may be on the road to extinction, put there last month by U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III.

By Hank Grezlak

6 minute read

December 25, 2006 | The Legal Intelligencer

A Good First Date

One thing that I learned earlier this month in Hershey at a meeting between judges and journalists from around the state is that both professions have much in common.

By Hank Grezlak

6 minute read

March 01, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

Sources: CHOP GC Fired for Alleged 'Embezzlement'

Details of why the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia fired its general counsel, Roosevelt Hairston Jr., on Feb. 18 have been slow to emerge.

By Gina Passarella And Hank Grezlak

5 minute read