Max Mitchell

March 16, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

The plaintiffs and defendants in the ­ongoing litigation over testosterone replacement therapy drugs have joined forces in seeking to have the pending state court cases consolidated into a mass tort.

By Max Mitchell

4 minute read

March 14, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

Funds for the First Judicial District will remain largely unchanged from last year if Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney's budget is implemented as proposed.

By Max Mitchell

4 minute read

March 11, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

Charging off a debt and sending out a U.S. Internal Revenue Service cancellation of debt form does not end a debtor's responsibility to pay what is owed, the state Superior Court has ruled in an issue of first impression.

By Max Mitchell

5 minute read

March 11, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

A Philadelphia jury has awarded $10.5 million to the family of a mother of two who was "buried alive" during a collision with a dump truck carrying thousands of pounds of sand.

By Max Mitchell

12 minute read

March 11, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

The Philadelphia District Attorney's Office has asked the state Supreme Court to determine whether the Superior Court overstepped its bounds when it overturned the conviction of Monsignor William J. Lynn, the first Catholic Church ­administrative official convicted over conduct by other priests.

By Max Mitchell

4 minute read

March 09, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

A newly elected Philadelphia judge has been censured by the state Supreme Court for neglecting a client's case while he was an attorney.

By Max Mitchell

4 minute read

March 09, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

A Philadelphia judge has asked a frontline appeals court to deny the appeal of an attorney who is battling fee disputes with his former partners and had sought to have his former counsel disqualified from representing one of the attorneys he is now at odds with.

By Max Mitchell

4 minute read

March 08, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

​The former Lancaster County magisterial district court judge suspended for dismissing her own traffic tickets, and later ­removed from the bench for failing to file tax returns, has been reinstated to the ­practice of law by the state Supreme Court.

By Max Mitchell

4 minute read

March 08, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

As county agencies around Pennsylvania begin to implement a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling on juveniles unconstitutionally sentenced to life without parole, a raft of conflicts, concerns and complications have made clear that the process will require significant time and resources to complete.

By Max Mitchell and Ben Seal

9 minute read

March 07, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

While the number of cases being tried at the First Judicial District continue to fall for the third year in a row, the amount plaintiffs took home in 2015 was a 60 percent drop from what juries awarded the year before.

By Max Mitchell

4 minute read