Hank Grezlak

October 10, 2005 | The Legal Intelligencer

The state Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments over whether jurors must be consistent in answering interrogatories in order for verdicts to be valid.

By Hank Grezlak

7 minute read

August 21, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

Taking a page out of the strict constructionists and Tea Party types, I'm going to channel the spirit of the Founding Fathers and say that they would argue that other than freedom of speech, there is no greater right in America than the right to vote. So why are so many quick to let the government set limits on that right?

By Hank Grezlak

6 minute read

August 24, 2011 | Daily Report Online

A Lackawanna County, Penn., judge emailed fellow Democrats in 2004 advising them how to oppose a county voting redistricting plan and urging them to not "tell anyone this petition has been assigned to me."The redistricting plan had been proposed by a Republican county administration.The Scranton Times-Tribune first reported the story Aug.

By Zack Needles, Hank Grezlak and Ben Present

9 minute read

September 14, 2009 | The Legal Intelligencer

A detailed complaint was filed against former Luzerne County Judge Michael T. Conahan with the Judicial Conduct Board in 2006, alleging wide-spread corruption including case-fixing, mob ties and the improper placement of juveniles in a privately owned juvenile detention facility.

By Hank Grezlak and Leo Strupczewski

7 minute read

August 13, 2007 | The Legal Intelligencer

Normally when if I take time off in the summer, the biggest news when I get back is how little news there really was.

By Hank Grezlak

7 minute read

November 27, 2006 | The Legal Intelligencer

If you look at the 2006 edition of our annual PaLaw magazine in today's editions of Pennsylvania Law Weekly and The Legal Intelligencer, you'll find plenty of evidence that the legal landscape in Pennsylvania – as well as across

By Hank Grezlak

6 minute read

May 30, 2005 | The Legal Intelligencer

In a clear victory for plaintiffs' attorneys, the state Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that pedestrians injured by automobiles are not bound by limited tort coverage.

By Hank Grezlak

9 minute read

July 13, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

After watching the Pennsylvania Supreme Court take its latest beating in the media over the Philadelphia family court fiasco, I can't decide if the court is the judicial equivalent of Rocky Balboa or Randall "Tex" Cobb. Balboa is a fictional champ, while Cobb got beat up by a real champ before turning to acting. The only thing those two have in common is an ability to endure horrific abuse. In that case, I guess both analogies work.

By Hank Grezlak

6 minute read

September 11, 2013 | Law.com

Continuing its "backdoor strategy" to expansion in Southeast Asia, Duane Morris, through its joint venture with Singapore-based Selvam LLC, has opened an office in Yangon, Myanmar, the first U.S.-based law firm to do so.

By Hank Grezlak and Zack Needles

6 minute read

May 05, 2009 | The Legal Intelligencer

Ralph J. Cappy, the 52nd Chief Justice of Pennsylvania and arguably the state Supreme Court's most forceful leader of the past two decades, was dogged by the controversial 2005 pay raise but will probably be best remembered in Philadelphia for spurring the eradication of a huge case backlog and modernizing the city's court system.

By Hank Grezlak And Peter Hall

10 minute read