Max Mitchell

March 28, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

With the Yaz birth-control multidistrict litigation led almost entirely by men, the evidence that women are less likely to be first chairs at trials across the legal industry, and the occasional story about old-guard leadership jockeying to ensure continued appointments on steering committees, anecdotal evidence suggests women are underrepresented in leadership positions on plaintiffs' steering ­committees in MDLs and mass torts.

By Max Mitchell

8 minute read

March 25, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

The former Philadelphia court administrator who pleaded guilty to stealing more than $70,000 from the First Judicial District has sued the city in the hopes of winning back her nearly $80,000 annual retirement benefits.

By Max Mitchell

8 minute read

March 23, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

Both sides of the "low T" drug litigation in Philadelphia may have wanted the pending state court cases consolidated into a mass tort program, but their requests have been rejected by the judge overseeing the litigation.

By Max Mitchell

8 minute read

March 23, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

The contentiousness that bounced a group of Paxil birth-defect cases between state and federal courts several years ago showed no sign of letting up as the first of those cases to hit trial got under way in state court Tuesday.

By Max Mitchell

8 minute read

March 22, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has sent back to district court a $310,000 bill for discovery costs that University of Pittsburgh Medical Center lodged against a class of employees whose class certification was later decertified.

By Max Mitchell

9 minute read

March 22, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

State Supreme Court Justice Kevin Dougherty is back at work after he was attacked last weekend by a panhandler in Philadelphia, a spokesman for the high court has confirmed.

By Max Mitchell

4 minute read

March 18, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

A Philadelphia jury has awarded a ­sanitation worker more than $1.8 million after he was partially blinded when caustic chemicals splashed into his eye while cleaning a Hatfield Quality Meats ­processing plant.

By Max Mitchell

4 minute read

March 17, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

A Philadelphia man who had served as tipstaff to former criminal division Supervising Judge Jeffrey Minehart and Municipal Court Judge Joffie Pittman was arrested recently for allegedly selling cocaine from his home.

By Max Mitchell and Lizzy McLellan

5 minute read

March 17, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

The state Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments over whether SEPTA should be subject to a Philadelphia ordinance forbidding discrimination based on sexual orientation.

By Max Mitchell

5 minute read

March 16, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

The state attorney general has charged three Franciscan friars with conspiracy and child endangerment for their alleged roles in allowing a fellow friar to molest more than 80 children at a Catholic high school in Johnstown.

By Max Mitchell

3 minute read