Hank Grezlak

April 12, 2007 | The Legal Intelligencer

It's fitting that the new season of The Sopranos started Sunday. For those of you unfamiliar with the series, there's a great running gag on the show where a character named Silvio does a killer imitation of Al Pacino in The Godfather Part III saying: "Every time I think I'm out, they keep pulling me back in."

By Hank Grezlak

7 minute read

September 29, 2005 | The Legal Intelligencer

Robert Lane, who helped build Morgan Lewis & Bockius's real estate department into a powerhouse group, is leaving the firm to start a joint venture with former Philadelphia mayoral candidate Sam Katz aimed at developing public works and real estate projects in China.

By Hank Grezlak

6 minute read

April 30, 2010 | Law.com

Former Luzerne County Common Pleas Judge Michael T. Conahan agreed Thursday to plead guilty to accepting, along with another judge, more than $2.8 million from the builder and former co-owner of a private juvenile detention facility. The plea deal limits Conahan's exposure to one racketeering conspiracy charge, which carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000. Sources have said Conahan essentially ran the county and was the epicenter of corruption in the courthouse.

By Hank Grezlak and Leo Strupczewski

5 minute read

December 12, 2006 | The Legal Intelligencer

I'm going to apologize right out of the gate. Today's column has very little to do with the law, or with politics or business or the other topics we normally cover in The Legal. This is a piece about the preciousness of life.

By Hank Grezlak

8 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 The Legal Intelligencer and Pennsylvania Law Weekly, you�ll find plenty of evidence that the legal landscape in Pennsylvania � as well as across the country and around the globe � is rapidly changing.

By Hank Grezlak

7 minute read

April 23, 2007 | Law.com

Non-lawyers can represent employers at unemployment compensation proceedings, a splintered Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled. The plurality decision overturned a lower court decision that found such action amounted to the unauthorized practice of law. Chief Justice Ralph J. Cappy wrote in the opinion that public interest concerns didn't warrant such a classification, given "the character of the activities performed," the informal nature, and the minimal amounts at issue in unemployment hearings.

By Hank Grezlak

6 minute read

March 02, 2009 | The Legal Intelligencer

A former Luzerne County president judge used to hold bimonthly meetings with a reputed mob boss and a common friend -- also an admitted felon -- to discuss pending court cases, according to a supplement to a King's Bench petition filed with the state Supr

By Leo Strupczewski And Hank Grezlak

5 minute read

April 23, 2007 | The Legal Intelligencer

Employers can be represented by non-lawyers at unemployment compensation proceedings, a splintered state Supreme Court has ruled.

By Hank Grezlak

6 minute read

April 18, 2005 | The Legal Intelligencer

The Superior Court has ruled that in order for verdicts to be valid, the jurors must be consistent in answering interrogatories.

By Hank Grezlak

7 minute read

August 29, 2006 | Law.com

The state Supreme Court has ruled that police officers have limited authority to pull over motorists suspected of drunk driving once they leave their jurisdiction.

By Hank Grezlak

9 minute read